Late Wednesday night, the House passed H.R. 1, the “For the People Act.” It passed by ten votes, with every Republican voting against it, as well as Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, who fears that the bill will abolish majority-black districts like his in the Deep South.

On January 15, in its last days, President Donald Trump’s State Department put out a statement with serious claims about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Less than a year after Adolf Hitler had committed suicide in the rubble of Berlin, the West was forced – solely through the oratory and amazing foresight of one man – to consider the terrible possibility that a new struggle against totalitarianism was inevitable, indeed was already underway.