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David Cicilline to Gaetz: Should Insurrectionists Lead the Pledge of Allegiance?

Congressman Matt Gaetz wants "inspirational constituents" to lead the pledge at House meetings. Out Rep. Cicilline wondered if those who try to overthrow the government should be allowed the opportunity.

The Capitol and the Grim Reminder to a Gay Jewish Man to Never Forget

There's light now that President Joe Biden is in office, but the capitol insurrection reminds us that anti-Semitism (among other things) is alive and well.

11 takeaways from Donald Trump’s low-energy second inauguration

It certainly made history in more ways than one.

Among many contrasts this election, confederate flags on pointed poles versus American flags on soft sticks

When Harris was finished on Tuesday, the crowd left the Ellipse peacefully, returning to their cars, their buses, their homes, and their lives — with hope, John Casey writes.

Mitch McConnell leaves as the Senate’s longest-serving coward

McConnell will be spending his remaining years as a prisoner to his own cowardice and with a wife whose honor he did not defend.

Far-Right Extremists Have the LGBTQ+ Community in Their Crosshairs

Former Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor suggests what we can do to protect ourselves.

22 times Donald Trump has dumped a number 2 on America

Opinion: The real sludge is not the one coming from Trump’s hideous AI plane, it’s the excrement that sits in the White House, trying to clog up democracy, writes John Casey.

2016: The Year in Review

Everything that mattered, from odious Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, to queers marching in New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade, to the end of the ban on trans military service, to the massacre in Orlando -- and much more.