… In the five days since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) opened an impeachment inquiry following revelations about Trump’s conduct with his Ukrainian counterpart, Trump has been determined to cast himself as a singular victim in a warped reality — a portrayal that seems part political survival strategy, part virtual […] Read more »
Why Impeachment is Starting Now, In One Chart
… An impeachment process is informed by legal standards and judicial norms. But since America has never removed a sitting president from office using impeachment, no one knows how it works. There is no precedent. We’re literally making this up as we go along. The constitution tells us that presidents […] Read more »
The young Climate Strikers marching this week are all fired up and ready to vote.
Since 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived by solar-powered sailboat on Aug. 28, she has taken the U.S. by storm. She and others in her “Fridays for Future” movement protested climate inaction in front of the United Nations; marched by the White House; testified in a joint congressional hearing on […] Read more »
Elizabeth Warren’s rising popularity has been limited to Democrats
… Warren seems to have the hot hand in the Democratic presidential primary. She’s challenging former Vice President Joe Biden for the lead in Iowa, New Hampshire and nationally. These numbers show that at least part of her rise is because she’s become more popular. However, her growing popularity does […] Read more »
Trump Stuck, Warren Surges
There seemed to be just two topics of conversation in terms of presidential politics this past weekend. First was the impact of accusations that President Trump suggested or pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s business relationships in that country. The second was Elizabeth Warren pulling […] Read more »
Warren and Sanders are similar. Only one seems to know what it’ll take to win.
… Sanders and Warren have clear differences in style, emphasis and attitude toward our political systems that have helped them cultivate different, rather than interchangeable, bases of support in the 2020 primary. If either progressive wants to win in 2020, they need to do more than try to pick up […] Read more »