Lindsay Beyerstein
Lindsay Beyerstein covers legal affairs, health care and politics for the Editorial Board. An award-winning documentary filmmaker, she’s a judge for the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Find her @beyerstein.
The former president isn’t a kingmaker. Mo Brooks is a loser.
The latest smear of a US program to help former Soviet republics.
Even if it had been stolen, fomenting insurrection is still illegal.
If ordinary goons are guilty of disrupting an official proceeding, then the ringleaders who incited them are guilty as well.
The con keeps rolling, even if the trucks do not
Trudeau has finally acted decisively.
If any other government employee were caught with a trove of classified documents, they would face criminal investigation.
Meanwhile, the GOP is rewriting that horrible day’s history.
Similarities in language and formatting between the fake certificates suggests a far-reaching conspiracy orchestrated at the national level.
In a group of nearly 60 people facing serious prison time, at least some of them will be willing to implicate the higher ups to save themselves.