Section: The Atlantic (USA)
Republicans Know Trump Is Innocent—They’re Trying to Figure Out Why
Give Mac Thornberry this much: Unlike some of his Republican colleagues, he was at least trying.The Texas Republican appeared on ABC’s This Week Sunday, where he tentatively offered a message on the impeachment inquiry, which enters its public phase with hearings this Wednesday and Tuesday. Thornberry sought a middle course.“I believe that...
The Slow-Boil Revolt
Here is the unenviable calculation retired senior military officials must make in this politically unprecedented moment: Say nothing as norms shatter around you, and you’re implicitly enabling a president whom some of your former colleagues believe is threatening national security. Speak up, and you risk destroying the balance of power that...
Will the Generals Ever Crack?
James Mattis doesn’t want to talk about it—except when he does. The retired four-star general who resigned on principle as Donald Trump’s secretary of defense has said ever since that he will not publicly criticize the sitting president, because he owes a “duty of silence.” But his public resignation letter was a clear airing of...
The Ukraine Transcripts Are a Road Map for Impeachment
The experience of following the impeachment inquiry over the past week has been a bit like : The mystery of the Ukraine-call transcript]But taken as a whole, the transcripts—all 2,400 pages of them—provide an extremely detailed account of what took place both between the United States and Ukraine and within the U.S. government over the course of...
Nikki Haley’s Audacious Bet
Nikki Haley, the bright hope of Trump-skeptical Republicans, has placed a big bet that the Republican future will be almost as Trump-y as the recent Republican past.Haley numbers among the Republicans most often named as a leader for the post-Trump future. At intervals over the past three years, she has dissented from some of the more bizarre...
Impeachment Is About Bribery, Not ‘High Crimes and Misdeameanors’
“Where are the high crimes and misdemeanors?” That’s the question opponents of impeachment keep asking as Democrats investigate President Trump.“There aren’t any high crimes and misdemeanors,” Rush Limbaugh declared. “There aren’t any impeachable offenses.”“There are no high crimes and misdemeanors,” House Minority Whip Steve...
The Democrats’ Biggest Impeachment Challenge
Anyone who’s ever seen a CSI episode, read an Agatha Christie novel, or white-knuckled their way through a thriller in a movie theater understands that the key element of such stories is suspense. At the most basic level, there’s a crime, no one knows whodunnit, and someone has to crack the case. It’s the suspense that keeps...
The Year of Consequence Ahead
The year ahead will be no ordinary year.One year from now, barring historically unusual scenarios, we will know the results of the 2020 election, and who will be the next president of the United States.But the election is not all that’s at stake. The next 12 months will test the U.S. Constitution and determine the future of the American...
Photos of the Week: Airborne Giraffe, Horse Fascinator, Scottish Murmuration
A camel in New York City, the biggest Catrina in the world, the European MTV Awards in Spain, flooding in South Sudan, saffron harvest in Iran, a parade for the Washington Nationals, Bonfire Night celebrations in England, pelican moving in the Czech Republic, a huge skull in Ukraine, and much more. …read more Source:: The...
The Atlantic Politics Daily: Trump All By Himself
It’s Thursday, November 7. The president of Turkey will visit the White House next week, one month after the Syria chaos. Michael Bloomberg has reportedly taken steps to enter the Democratic presidential primary.In today’s newsletter: ¶ People. Trump dining alone; Rudy Giuliani. ¶ Places. Capitol Hill. ¶ Things. Warren’s wealth...
