Opinion
Impeachment can be a far more responsive check on the pathologies of executive power than elections.
Dec. 15, 2019
House Democrats are politicizing impeachment by pretending that there are no rules for starting a formal inquiry.
Aug. 11, 2019
With the process already underway, the House of Representatives can vote to impeach Trump even after he leaves office.
Jan. 12, 2021
Donald Trump’s defense in his second impeachment is a blizzard of nonsense.
Feb. 3, 2021
World & Nation
Congress: Narrow House victory could expose Republicans to public backlash, foster legislative gridlock, critics say. Others in party insist Clinton must be stamped with scarlet ‘I’.
Nov. 29, 1998
Parties pushing impeachments in the past rarely suffered politically and sometimes earned great payoffs.
Nov. 5, 2019
Don’t blame Democrats for tit-for-tat impeachments. It’s Republicans who are normalizing the most extreme check on the presidency.
Sept. 21, 2023
The framers knew impeachment would be divisive, but they understood it to be a key element of American democracy.
Dec. 5, 2019
Politics
The first impeachment hearing by the House Judiciary Committee in two decades turned into a partisan brawl on Wednesday.
Dec. 4, 2019
With a House resolution formalizing the impeachment inquiry, Trump can no longer use the due process dodge. Don’t expect that to move Republicans.
Nov. 2, 2019