Coup Nation David A. Graham, The Atlantic
The Case Against the Oath Keepers Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker
The Oath Keepers Sedition Case Is A Major Milestone In The Jan. 6 Probe. Here’s What Comes Next. Zoe Tillman, BuzzFeed News
How Should Abolitionists Think About Consequences for Jan. 6? Tori Williams Douglass, Sojourners
Was Chicago Cop With Ties To Proud Boys, White Nationalism Ever Punished? 2 Years Later, City Won’t Say Alex V. Hernandez, Block Club Chicago
Portland Police Used a Proud Boy Meme in Their Training Materials. The Feds Want Answers Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone
‘Big, big shifts’: How Biden’s civil rights pros have reoriented the Justice Department Tierney Sneed, CNN
DOJ’s No. 2 says addressing violent crime and police misconduct is not ‘an either/or’ Evan Perez and Tierney Sneed, CNN
The Right Way to Stop Rising Crime in New York Editorial Board, New York Times
Eric Adams’ “Blueprint To End Gun Violence” Is a Trojan Horse Slate
Record Levels of Gun Violence and the Democrats’ Dilemma David Rohde, The New Yorker
Wrong, again, on bail Editorial Board, Albany Times-Union
Supreme Court Weighs Jailed Immigrants’ Rights to Bail Hearings Adam Liptak, New York Times
Man executed for 1996 killing after Supreme Court clears way Jay Reeves, AP News
A Texas Mother Could Be Executed in April. Was Her Child’s Death Really a Murder? Lise Olsen, Texas Observer
16 Men Died in New York City Jails Last Year. Who Were They? Michael Wilson and Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times
Will Biden finally intervene in the Rikers crisis? Sara Dorn, City & State NY
What’s Going to Happen to All the Art on Rikers? Diana Budds, New York Magazine
They were sentenced to life in prison. Who should decide if they get a second chance? Rebecca Tan and Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post
New head of prisons must embrace criminal justice reform Jason Pye, The Hill
Giving Former Incarcerees a ‘Fair Chance’ at a Decent Job Nicole Jarrett, The Crime Report