Commentary / World Mar 4, 2021
What Neera Tanden’s demise says about ‘cancel culture’
by Ramesh Ponnuru
What Tanden’s defeat mostly tells us is that you should not insult a group of thin-skinned people if you might need their support in the future.
Commentary / World Mar 2, 2021
Trump’s not-quite-triumphant return
by Robert A. George
Trump sounded most sad and pathetic as he again circled back toward the Big Lie about the 2020 election.
World / Politics Feb 26, 2021
LGBTQ Americans inch closer to 'freedom' as House passes Equality Act
By a vote of 224 to 206, the House passed the landmark Equality Act, which amends the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes.
Commentary / World Feb 16, 2021
For Trump, no conviction, but a historic repudiation
by Jonathan Bernstein
One thing that Trump made clear was that nothing in the constitutional system makes presidents respect the U.S. political system and respond to that system’s incentives.
Commentary / World Feb 16, 2021
Trump's impeachment faced partisan doom
by Elizabeth Drew
Trump may have escaped being convicted by Congress for instigating a murderous mob attack on America’s Capitol, yet it seems clear that he will be held accountable for it in history.
World / Politics Feb 16, 2021
Pelosi keeps up pressure over Capitol riot with 9/11-style panel
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress must create an independent Sept. 11-type commission to investigate the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol now that former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial has ended. In a letter Monday to fellow House Democrats, Pelosi said retired Army Lt. ...
World / Politics | ANALYSIS Feb 14, 2021
For Trump, an escape, but not an exoneration
by Peter Baker
Having failed to convict, Democrats hope that the trial nonetheless made it implausible if not impossible for Trump to ever run for president again as he has hinted he might do.
World / Politics Feb 14, 2021
Trump is acquitted for second time even as seven Republicans vote to impeach
by Nicholas Fandos
With most of Trump’s party coalescing around him, the 57-43 tally fell 10 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict.
World / Politics Feb 12, 2021
Republicans unmoved as Democrats use Trump's own words in case against him
GOP Senator Lindsey Graham, one of Trump’s closest allies in Congress, suggested the prosecution was futile, with most of his Republican colleagues already decided against conviction.
World / Politics Feb 10, 2021
Trump’s Senate trial moves forward after vote on constitutionality
The move clears the way for arguments to begin on whether Trump incited an insurrection by inflaming the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last month.
World / Politics Feb 7, 2021
After Senate trial, will Donald Trump face criminal charges?
There's little chance Donald Trump will be convicted by the U.S. Senate of inciting an insurgency but his legal troubles won't end with the conclusion of his second impeachment trial.