Not every crime is an impeachable offense and not every impeachable offense is a crime.
Richard Nixon
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Post-Trump, the GOP Will Spend Some Time in the Wilderness
The Republican Party’s weaknesses are deeper than Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump Should Follow Spiro Agnew’s Example
Faced with growing criminal liability, Agnew cut a deal in return for leaving office, and the same solution should appeal to Donald Trump.
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How Trump Adopted Nixon’s Southern Strategy
The president’s ‘base’ didn’t come from nowhere.
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A Reckoning With Racism is Inevitable
It’s time for Democrats to do it on their own terms rather than always responding to Republicans.
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Isn’t It Obvious Kelly and Mattis Wrote the NYT Op-Ed?
There have been actual mysteries in this country. What happened to the missing 18½ minutes on the Nixon tapes? Was there an actual “October surprise” in the 1980 presidential election? Why did anyone ever take George W. Bush seriously? This “mystery” is not one of them. To quote the renowned American philosopher Nasir Jones, it […]
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Kavanaugh Will Say Anything to Get Confirmed
Trump’s Supreme Court pick isn’t being honest about his stances on abortion rights and executive power.
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Full-Blown Insanity: Trump’s Paranoia Gets Worse
Trump will never lay down his weapons in his war against civility, legality and democracy.
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More Serious Than Watergate
The case for removal from office is stronger in Trump’s case than in Nixon’s.
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Rogaine or Propecia: Trump’s Plumbers Fix a Leak
After Trump’s doctor told a newspaper he had given the president hair growth formula, two men came to his office to steal the president’s medical files.
