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• Constitution is all that’s keeping us from authoritarianism

  By George Skelton

  We Americans are not particularly exceptional when compared with other people in the world. What makes our country great is a Constitution that provides us with liberty, democracy and opportunity.

• The Nevada spirit will carry us through, if we commit to it

  By Peter Guzman

  History books of the future will address these amazing times we are living through, and I hope we pause to reflect and make course corrections regarding the legacy we wish to leave.

• The narcissist in chief brings it all crashing down

  By Jennifer Senior

  Our president has never been a very stable man. But I’m trying to think of what threshold of loco he had to clear in order for one of his senior advisers to confide in my colleague Maggie Haberman that Donald Trump “lost it” on the day of the insurrection.

• Stop using taxpayer money to prop up the oil and gas industry

  By Russell Kuhlman

  As Nevada’s taxpayers start to receive our second round of stimulus checks, a new report shows that the outgoing administration has handed out billions of dollars to oil and gas companies in the form of relief payments, tax breaks and debt forgiveness.

• Trump mob’s Capitol offense

  By Maureen Dowd

  Not only was a Capitol policeman killed after being hit by a fire extinguisher, the entire security apparatus meant to protect our democracy failed. Was the pathetic response to the anarchy engineered by Trump? It would not be the first time he sabotaged the government he was running. He was not even moved to protect his own lickspittle, the vice president, who was in the chamber when it was attacked.

• The president actively incites terrorists

  By Nicholas Kristof

  Wednesday was a horrifying and shameful moment in American history. I’ve covered attempted coups in many countries around the world, and now I’m finally covering one in the United States.

• Here’s why Biden needs to help teachers like me

  By Lauren Quinn

  I am a public school teacher, though sometimes it feels like I work for the company store. For five years, I have been making monthly payments on a student loan that started out at $50,000 but has grown to $59,000 because of accrued interest. So far, I have paid down the principal by a whopping $97.

• We can’t be surprised by the Capitol riot

  By Robin Abcarian

  After four years of President Donald Trump’s lies, delusions and disrespect for the law, can anyone be surprised that he tried to incite a coup last week?

• Big Business finally sees the downside of supporting this president

  By Michael Hiltzik

  The spectacle unfolding all day Wednesday of violent insurrectionists in front of and inside the U.S. Capitol has provoked many supporters of President Donald Trump suddenly to deem themselves ex-supporters.

• Trump’s real claim to fame: Biggest loser

  By Gail Collins

  Think about it. He lost the election. Then he threw his energy into the campaigns of two Senate candidates in Georgia, both of whom lost. Then he returned to Washington, where his supporters delayed the certification of the election with a thug-like assault on the nation’s Capitol.

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  Plenty to blame for Trump’s traitor tantrum

  By Brian Greenspun

  The question that will be asked by new generations of Americans must be, “What did you do, Daddy or Mommy, to prevent the coup attempt of the United States …

• That Buffett-Bezos-Dimon health care venture goes bust — predictably

  By Michael Hiltzik

  Anyone not blinded by the star power of Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Jamie Dimon could have known that their project to solve America’s health care woes was a dead duck from the start.

• Are we supposed to believe that only Republicans legitimately win elections?

  By Jamelle Bouie

  Of the many stories to tell about American politics since the end of the Cold War, one of growing significance is how the Republican Party came to believe in its singular legitimacy as a political actor. Whether it’s a hangover from the heady days of the Reagan revolution (when conservatives could claim ideological hegemony) or something downstream of America’s reactionary traditions, it’s a belief that now dominates conservative politics and has placed much of the Republican Party in opposition to republican government itself.

• With one call to the president, QAnon shows its power

  By Farhad Manjoo

  Forgive me for failing, at first, to find much news in the news that President Donald Trump had pressured officials in Georgia to overturn the election results. That he had been caught doing so on tape was even more dog-bites-man.

• Republican Party has gone feral

  By Paul Krugman

  There have always been people like Donald Trump: self-centered, self-aggrandizing, believing that the rules apply only to the little people and that what happens to the little people doesn’t matter.

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