Tag: Government

Donald J. Trump is now the fourth of our presidents to face impeachment. Two of them, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, actually were impeached, although…

Karl Marx said that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and the second as farce. Of course, that doesn’t preclude tragedy following the…

The Mueller hearings have come and gone, leaving us predictably no closer to a resolution of our constitutional crisis and shorn of any remaining illusion…

Most anniversaries wear with time. Few, however, have faded as quickly as the Apollo 11 moon landing half a century ago on July 20, 1969.…

Last week, after two years as Special Counsel to the Justice Department’s investigation of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election and related matters, and…

As I’ve said before, I believe that when a president commits impeachable offenses on a regular basis, there is a Constitutional duty to call him…

The President and the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, have had a famously turbulent relationship. Last week, however, things came to a boil. Pelosi…

Back in April, former Vice President Joe Biden announced that he was entering the race to the White House for the 2020 election. This announcement…

Is the fate of the planet — that is, of our fate on it — tied to the fate of democracy? I think there are…

In 2000, Vice President Al Gore conceded a disputed presidential election to George W. Bush after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ended his legal challenge…