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This Is Why the Impeachment Clause Exists
The Democrats grew a spine.The detention camps weren’t enough. The policy of deliberate child torture was insufficient. The neglect of Americans displaced by natural disasters didn’t pass muster. The hush money shelled out to the president’s former mistresses in violation of federal law was too small a crime. The president using...
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Comments or questions? Send us an email anytime. Were you forwarded this email? Sign yourself up here. We appreciate your continued support for our journalism. Today in PoliticsUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the UNGA. (Lucas Jackson / Reuters)Impeachment? Ukraine? UNGA? Who is where, and what did they just say? Here’s a...
Limit? What Limit?
Those wondering the extent to which Republicans will go to defend President Donald Trump might look to the immortal words of Mean Girls protagonist Cady Heron: “The limit does not exist.”On Wednesday, the White House released what officials called a “transcript” (it was, at best, a reconstruction) of Trump’s July call with Ukrainian...
Trump Is Panicking
When Donald Trump stepped to the dais at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, he had a speech full of sharp lines: swipes at socialism, assertions of nationalism versus globalism, harsh words for Iran. Though Trump doesn’t enjoy delivering scripted remarks, he sounded listless, tired, and bored even by his own standards,...
What Pelosi’s Pivot on Impeachment Really Means
When Speaker Nancy Pelosi solemnly announced that the House of Representatives would open an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump shortly after 5 p.m. on Tuesday, everything changed. Or maybe nothing changed at all.On the one hand, the most powerful woman in America had just unequivocally thrown her support behind an official effort...
How Impeachment Is Testing Trump’s Focus
Two years ago, an unpredictable and untested new president gave his first speech at the United Nations General Assembly and left the impression he might just start World War III.So incensed was President Donald Trump over North Korean missile tests that he threatened nuclear annihilation unless its leader, Kim Jong Un, pulled back. Mocking Kim,...
Trump’s Classic Bully Move
Donald Trump considers the notes from his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to be exculpatory—and that fact is terribly damning. He has no self-awareness of his own abusiveness, perhaps because that abusiveness is so central to his character. His conversation with the Ukrainian president is a perfect example of how a bully...
Trump’s Incriminating Conversation With the Ukrainian President
As the White House prepared to release a summary of President Donald Trump’s July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, administration sources told reporters there wouldn’t be much there.They were wrong.The summary, released Wednesday morning, is a wild look into the president’s mindset and approach to his job. It...
Ukraine’s President Pits Ubiquity Against Transparency
When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took the podium at the United Nations General Assembly today all eyes were on him—not least because he is at the center of an emerging impeachment investigation into Donald Trump. It was Zelensky’s largest international audience yet, marking the completion of his transformation from comedian to...
The Fourth Battle for the Constitution
In the next few years, many Americans understand, the Supreme Court may provide answers to some of the most hotly contested questions of constitutional law—the scope of affirmative action and federal power, for example, or the future of Roe v. Wade. What fewer recognize is that if the balance of the current Court changes, the settlement of these...
