June 5, 2020

The job of making the case against the officers charged in George Floyd’s death falls to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. He is no strange to controversy: as America’s first Muslim congressman, he was a prime target of the right wing smear machine. Now he faces an unprecedented challenge, winning a conviction in a justice system that traditionally favors the police.

When riot police routed peaceful protesters outside the White House, very few Republican lawmakers condemned the incident, leading many to question how the Party came to this. In a new article for The Atlantic, “History Will Judge the Complicit,” Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum looks at enablers and collaborators all the way back to WWII and Soviet communism.