Mike Pence

Former presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) sits in the bleachers on Capitol Hill before Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th US President on January 20, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden inauguration: History’s little reassuring moments

Marie-Danielle Smith: As a sense of calm returned our minds and eyes could wander to the details—a soldier making the sign of the cross, the masked faces, a warm pair of mittens

Demonstrators enter the U.S. Capitol building during a protest in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021 (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Not a coup. Opposite!

Shannon Gormley: It wasn’t an insurrection, it was simply a few thousand homicidal people under the direction of the president after he told them to ‘fight like hell’

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence participates in the vice presidential debate at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The vice presidential candidates only meet once to debate before the general election on November 3. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The VP debate: Just another American letdown

Andray Domise: It wasn’t last week’s Trump/Biden debacle, but the surreal VP debate reflected almost nothing of the world outside the debate hall

From top: the fly, and Mike Pence (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The fly on Mike Pence’s head was the tiny hero we deserved

So much depends upon a black insect resting against the white backdrop of an American politician’s hair

This combination of pictures created on October 07, 2020 shows US Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential nominee and Senator from California Kamala Harris during the vice presidential debate in Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020, in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Justin Sullivan/AFP/Getty Images)

‘Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking:’ Five takeaways from the U.S. VP debate

Kamala Harris combined assertiveness and ease, but both she and Mike Pence wriggled out of key questions. It was all so blessedly normal.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) (L) and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (R) take the stage for the vice presidential debate at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The vice presidential candidates only meet once to debate before the general election on November 3. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The VP debate: ‘What on earth did Trump just do?’

Paul Wells: There aren’t a lot of ways to politely defend the president. Enter the interrupting, truth-inverting funhouse mirror Mike Pence.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence participate in the vice presidential debate moderated by Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today Susan Page (C) at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The vice presidential candidates only meet once to debate before the general election on November 3. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The VP debate: ‘Thank you Mr. Vice President—can you let her finish?’

Scott Gilmore: The pundits theorized this crucial debate did not likely change many minds. It’s possible that women saw it differently.

Why the Liberals can’t stop talking about abortion

Andrew MacDougall: An election looms and the Liberals are rallying around abortion. It’s a sure sign that something has gone badly wrong.

Kyrsten Sinema shows she’s one adversary Mike Pence can’t stare down

Image of the week: The U.S. veep visibly squirmed as he swore in America’s first openly bisexual senator. But he kept his sense of humour

Why Mike Pence is giving Xi Jinping the stink-eye in this picture

Image of the week: APEC leaders gathered in Papua New Guinea against the backdrop of a U.S.-China trade war. It did not go well.

Mike Pence, the next president

In the hometown of U.S. vice-president Mike Pence, politics is becoming a family business—and that could have huge consequences