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Upon the signing of the treaty of peace and the British departure from New York, he had no realistic choice but to leave for England, where he lived for the remainder of his life, never returning to the country of his birth.3 His sister Grace married John Tabor Kempe, a native of England who succeeded his father as attorney general of the colony of New York. When he came of age, he is said to have briefly considered a career in the law, following in the footsteps of his older brother John, who went to England to prepare at the Inns of Court; yet the easier alternative available to him, promising immediate reward, was to enter his father's counting house as a junior partner in the firm of Coxe Furman & Coxe, where he received an equal third share in the profits of the enterprise.5 If Daniel Coxe openly proclaimed his allegiance to the crown, his younger cousin may have hesitated as he reflected on his father's advice to maintain a neutral position in the conflict.

The figure of the traitor plays an intriguing role in modern politics. Traitors are a source of transgression from within, creating their own kinds of aversion and suspicion. They destabilize the rigid moral binaries of victim and persecutor, friend and enemy. Recent history is stained by collaborators, informers, traitors, and the bloody purges and other acts of retribution against them. In the emergent nation-state of Bhutan, the specter of the \"antinational\" traitor helped to transform the traditional view of loyalty based on social relations. In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers' fear of traitors is tangled with the Tamil civilians' fear of being betrayed to the Tigers as traitors. For Palestinians in the West Bank, simply earning a living can mean complicity with people acting in the name of the Israeli state. While most contemporary studies of violence and citizenship focus on the creation of the \"other,\" the cases inTraitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Buildingillustrate the equally strong political and social anxieties among those who seem to be most alike. Treason is often treated as a pathological distortion of political life. However, the essays inTraitorspropose that treachery is a constant, essential, and normal part of the processes through which social and political order is produced. In the political gray zones between personal and state loyalties, traitors and their prosecutors play roles that make and unmake regimes. In this volume, ten scholars examine political, ethnic, and personal trust and betrayals in modern times from Mozambique to the Taiwan Straits, from the former Eastern Bloc to the West Bank. This fascinating collection studies the tension between close personal relationships, the demands of nation-states, and the moral choices that result when these interests collide. In asking how traitors are defined in the context of local histories, contributors address larger comparative questions about the nature of postcolonial citizenship.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about whether a man involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol can be charged with obstructing an official proceeding. The case could also impact Trump’s own prosecution for allegedly trying to remain in power after his 2020 defeat.