A president is facing impeachment, nearly exactly when Arthur Schlesinger anticipated. At the conclusion of The Imperial Presidency in 1973, he offered a warning: “We have noted that corruption appears to visit the White House in fifty-year cycles. This suggests that exposure and retribution inoculate the Presidency against its latent […] Read more »
This Week in Impeachment: Trump Lets Democrats Off the Hook, Puts the Squeeze on GOP Instead
The impeachment of President Trump was already a likely event by the end of last week. It became even more likely this week. … A Washington community that is ordinarily fond of cautioning Democrats that they are risking “overreach” by engaging in any politically assertive behavior temporarily ceased its usual […] Read more »
How Can Democrats Keep Themselves From Overreaching?
During my political lifetime, there have been four moments when the continuing viability of the Republican Party has been cast in doubt: the 1964 landslide defeat of Barry Goldwater, Watergate, the 1992 defeat of George H.W. Bush and the 2008 loss by John McCain. … There are some strategists — […] Read more »
The Obama effect has helped Joe Biden with black voters. Will it last?
Fairly or unfairly, Joe Biden has been taking some heat over the fact that, while he was vice president, his son Hunter held a $50,000-a-month board position at Burisma, a Ukrainian gas firm. Democratic leaders are nervous about how his campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination has been responding. Meanwhile, […] Read more »
Media Bubbles Aren’t The Biggest Reason We’re Partisans
Maybe you call it a bubble. Maybe you call it a silo. Maybe you just call it an echo chamber. But whatever metaphorical, narrow and enclosed space you prefer, there’s a good chance you’ve been told that one of the great social problems of our time is Americans getting their […] Read more »
Investigations usually hurt a president’s public reputation – but Trump isn’t usual
Douglas L. Kriner, Cornell University and Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley Will the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump ultimately have any effect? Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi had long resisted calls for impeachment, arguing that it is “just not worth it.” However, the Trump administration’s initial refusal to […] Read more »