How the press can hold Trump’s enablers—and itself—to account

Last Wednesday, having spent nearly a month of vacation trying to avoid the news, I could avoid it no longer and turned on CNN. The images on the screen, of insurrectionists invading the Capitol in the name of a conspiracy theory and in service of a coup, were viscerally shocking; since then, it feels as if a dam—or what was left of one—has been breached across America’s political and media landscape, in a way that’s been somehow more surprising than the precipitating shock itself. The...