Who Is Cassidy Hutchinson? Molly Olmstead, Slate
The Most Damning January 6 Testimony Yet David A. Graham, The Atlantic
It Was a Coup, and Trump Fully Intended to Lead It John Nichols, The Nation
A President Untethered Peter Baker, New York Times
‘I Keep Waiting for the Feds to Come’: The Jan. 6 Investigations Have Trumpworld on Edge Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley, Rolling Stone
Jan. 6 Panel Explores Links Between Trump Allies and Extremist Groups Alan Feuer, New York Times
California’s Hate Crime Surge Now Worse Than 9/11 Aftermath Brooke Leigh Howard, Daily Beast
Anti-Black, gay, Asian bias fuel California hate crime surge AP
Who’s to blame for the rural crime wave? Paul Waldman, Washington Post
Jury is chosen to decide Florida school shooter’s sentence Terry Spencer, AP
Editorial: The death penalty is wrong – even for racist mass killers Los Angeles Times
The Supreme Court’s Unusual Move on the Death Penalty Austin Sarat, Politico
Three justices backed the death penalty – then changed their minds Frederic J. Frommer, Washington Post
The Supreme Court Let The Death Penalty Flourish. Now Americans Are Ending It Themselves. Maurice Chammah, The Marshall Project
America’s ‘Machinery of Death’ Is Slowly Grinding to a Halt Maurice Chammah, New York Times
Nearly 70% of detainees at Rikers women’s jail can be safely released: advocates Sara Dorn, City & State NY
Secret Solitary Thomas Bartlett Whitaker, Guernica Magazine
Ruth Wilson Gilmore Says Freedom Is a Physical Place – But Can We Find It? Kylie Cheung, Jezebel
An Abolitionist Garden Grows at MoMA PS1 Abigail Glasgow, Vogue