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The two words that could tip the debate on Iran — and help decide the next election

The fierce political debate over President Donald Trump’s decision to order the killing of a top Iranian military leader ultimately may turn on just two words. Republicans cheering Trump’s decision to target Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani have invariably described it as decisive. Democrats criticizing his choice have denounced it […] Read more »

The House Has Impeached President Trump. Here’s What We Learned.

The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump on Wednesday, making him just the third president ever to be impeached. … At the moment, impeachment appears likely to end up serving mostly as a stern condemnation of Trump’s actions by House Democrats. Still, the impeachment of a president is […] Read more »

Democrats Never Gave Bill Clinton a Free Pass

As the House prepares to vote on impeaching President Trump, there is no doubt that the Republican Party is behind him. Not a single House Republican voted to open an impeachment inquiry, and party officials have faithfully defended the president by denying facts and evidence that are beyond dispute and […] Read more »

Trump has weathered impeachment better than Clinton

… During the course of the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Trump, analysts such as myself have been making the few historical comparisons we can to judge the current situation. In these, Trump usually comes out looking poorly compared to Bill Clinton, the last president to be impeached. Clinton’s job approval […] Read more »

To this impeachment ‘connoisseur,’ Trump’s case looks familiar

In 1998, when House Republicans set out to impeach President Bill Clinton for lying about sex, they claimed lofty ambitions. “This has to be a bipartisan exercise,” Rep. Henry J. Hyde of Illinois, then chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told me back then. He failed. … History repeated itself […] Read more »