Our politics have become so toxic that the impulse to avoid them has become almost as powerful as the impulse to change them.
Nancy Pelosi
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Lev Parnas Will Be Central in Any Real Impeachment Trial
As I’ve long predicted, any presidential acquittal will first have to contend with the information held by a notorious Ukrainian-American fraudster with connections to Russian intelligence.
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Defending Democracy in the Trump Era
Help the Washington Monthly stay in the fight.
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Trump Doesn’t Know What Pelosi Is Doing to Him
The president thinks the Senate is control of the impeachment calendar but he couldn’t be more wrong.
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Pelosi Will Impeach, and John Roberts’ Role Will Loom Large
The House managers who will prosecute the case should ask Chief Justice John Roberts to demand the presence of Bolton, Mulvaney, Giuliani and Pompeo.
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Impeachment Procedures Provide a Whole New Set of Headaches for Republicans
The hearings were always going to be public, because Democrats are the ones who want everyone to hear the evidence.
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What Pelosi and Clinton Got Right About Donald Trump
Putin didn’t just interfere in an election. He’s now directing the president’s foreign policy.
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Pelosi Gave a Master Class on How to Deal With a Misogynist Bully
It all comes down to shifting the power dynamics.
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In the House, the Tide Is Turning on Impeachment
With further revelations about Trump’s abuse of presidential power, moderate Democrats are calling for hearings.
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Can the Democrats Restart a Stalled Impeachment Process?
Momentum has been lost over the recess. Now, they risk turning the crisis of Trump into a simple sex scandal.
