No longer is “Black Hawk Down” my most recent reference to the chaos of combat.
On Wednesday, President Trump became the first American president to be impeached twice after 10 Republicans joined Democrats in charging him with “incitement of insurrection.” David Cicilline, an author of the impeachment article, said the move was the only option. “The truth is that we do not have a choice. This impeachment charge is meant to defend the integrity of the republic,” he writes. Deepak Gupta and Brian Beutler argue that impeachment isn’t the only tool in Congress’s tool belt: It can also invoke Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to prevent him from holding office in the future. |
Even if Trump is swiftly convicted and disqualified, don’t expect smooth sailing for the Republican Party upon the president’s departure, Lisa McGirr writes. Trump may have brought in the crowds, but “Republicans have been fueling the conditions that enabled Mr. Trump’s rise since the 1980s,” she says. |
Why the Capitol Riot Reminded Me of War |
 | | Illustration by Doug Chayka; photographs by Leah Millis/Reuters, Spencer Platt, via Getty Images, and Jon Cherry, via Getty Images |
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“Not long after the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, a video began circulating among veterans I know. It is a roughly 40-minute continuous shot that moves from the breach on the western staircase of the Capitol to the shooting of one of the rioters, Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, outside the Speaker’s Lobby,” Elliot Ackerman writes. |
In Less Than 20 Days, the Rent Is Due |
“I wake up in the middle of the night in complete drenched sweat and terror,” says Melissa, a single mother in Atlanta. |
The Story of Working Women of Color Was Progress. Then Came the Coronavirus. |
 | | The pandemic has widened existing inequalities of gender, class and race.Joe Raedle/Getty Images |
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“How thin can the fabric of a society be stretched before it tears?” Diane Coyle asks. |
My Grandfather Was a Good Cop. Or Was He? |
 | | Illustration by Anthony Gerace; photographs from JoAnna Novak, Village of Stickney, Berwyn Life and Stickney Life/Shaw Media |
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“I try to coax him out of the pages,” JoAnna Novak writes. “I stare down the barrel of the pistol he points at the camera, holding his eye.” |
No, the Chaos in America Is Not a Gift to China and Russia |
 | | Pool photo by Kenzaburo Fukuhara |
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“So far I see no reason to believe that even this hard a hit to America’s prestige will burnish the image of authoritarians elsewhere,” Maria Repnikova writes. |
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