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He has no business being president of the United States.

The bottom line is that rushing into impeachment — or summarily ruling it out — are equally foolish.

President Trump has praised Eric Holder, saying he “totally protected Obama."

The tax bill is the epitome of the Washington “swamp.”

His testimony sent up red flags for those who care about the independence of the Mueller investigation.

The former president must be held morally, politically and legally accountable.

This is how it's done.

Enlarging the court is precisely what would preserve the court’s legitimacy.

Freedom has been largely a Republican battle cry, but the president is reclaiming it.

Nothing makes the privileged few happier than a left that becomes too maximalist to win, and then tears itself apart.

Polarization defines Trump’s survival strategy, and it means that demagoguery is what his presidency is all about.

Kevin McCarthy once suggested the president needs "soft food.” Now he's the one serving a "s**t sandwich" to his caucus.

Like Ron DeSantis, two Democrats, Gretchen Whitmer and Josh Shapiro, won landslides in states that Trump carried in 2016.

A slow-motion dismantling of rules can be insidious because we don’t even notice what’s happening to us.

Like Ron DeSantis, two Democrats, Gretchen Whitmer and Josh Shapiro, won landslides in states that Trump carried in 2016.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg responds to report President Trump disparaged fallen U.S. soldiers.

Democrats go at it amid a heartbreak for democracy.

Which Republicans will stand behind a president who puts Russia first?

Brian Kemp’s hot-tape comments on “unprecedented” voter turnout shows that the GOP is up to its old tricks.

Merrick Garland’s Democratic critics should be a bit more empathetic because he faces a genuine dilemma.

Senators who claim to be principled owe us a full accounting.

Sure, don’t underestimate the president, but don’t play his game, either.

Republican senators will now be on the defensive for their complicity in the Trump coverup.

There’s one big problem with the West Virginia senator’s potential plan to explore a presidential bid.

This movement is putting politics ahead of faith and ideology ahead of theology.

What was the point of putting together a majority in the Senate if they aren’t going to wield it?

The deal fell apart later in the day when the president and his chief of staff wanted more concessions on immigration.

Republicans are deepening their complicity in derailing the investigation of Russian collusion in the election.

The budget reconciliation rule has proved more of a spur to cooperation than the filibuster, but even that is limited.

Russia manipulated, Trump concealed.

We are in a new and better world on guns — in part because 2018 voters changed the political calculus on the issue.

Biden and Manchin's past opposition to ending the filibuster has to give way in the face of the GOP’s assault on voting rights.

Without a conviction, “January 6!” will become a rallying cry for right-wing extremists.

The timeline established by the GOP for completing this process is not sacred.

Republicans who are serious about governing now understand they must accept Democratic help.

Accountability has overcome fear.

Why tying the GOP's fate to a washed-up demagogue and the extremists he cultivates could be a colossal political mistake.

We need the reasonable among us to wrest control of the gun debate.

Which party is actually out of touch with the country?

Those who expect the very worst of Trump are always vindicated.

More time would not have made things better.

There’s a high cost to confirming Amy Coney Barrett.

The lower chamber has always claimed to be “the people’s house.” No more.

Republicans have a lot of work in front of them. But comments that the ex-president must still confront the criminal justice system are a sign of how far he has fallen.

Perhaps the stark contrast between the two men we have just witnessed — in who they are, in their priorities, in the way they behave — will be a reset moment.

The Democratic candidate makes a plea for integrating faith and ideology.

80% of Democrats and Republicans believe the political opposition poses a threat that, if not stopped, will destroy America as we know it. 

Can Bidenomics become a template for the center-left as Reaganomics was for the center-right?