Impeachment, Explained
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Impeachment, Explained
We are living through history, but keeping up with the unending stream of revelations, statements, tweets, and disputes is already difficult enough. If we’re going to understand this inquiry–and this presidency–we need to slow down the news cycle long enough to separate the signal from the noise. Ev...
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Democrats made a strong case against Donald Trump. Republicans are being punished for supporting it. Vox’s Zack Beauchamp explains.
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Capitol punishment
Vox’s Andrew Prokop previews the historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Law professor Alan Rozenshtein explains what the...
A step past impeachment
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The impeachment trial convicted American politics
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The McConnell effect
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"Constitutional decay" in the US Senate
This week, Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in to preside over the third presidential impeachment trial in US history. What happens next? What’s M...
Impeachment and Iran
This week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would finally send impeachment articles to the Senate. Why now? What is the Senate trial shaping u...
Impeachment in, and beyond, the Beltway
This week, Donald Trump became the third president in US history to be impeached. What does that mean? Why is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi waiting to se...
Mr. Feldman goes to Washington
This week, the House Judiciary Committee announced and approved two articles of impeachment. Why two instead of 10? Why is this process moving so quic...
How Andrew Johnson’s impeachment created the template for Trump’s
This week, the fact-finding phase of the Trump impeachment inquiry officially ended. Reports were released, hearings were held, articles of impeachmen...
Was Rudy Giuliani always like this?
Rudy Giuliani will prove to be the crucial character who pushed Donald Trump towards impeachable offenses. But how did Giuliani go from “America’s May...
What’s wrong with the Republican Party?
The core question this impeachment process is raising isn’t “what did Donald Trump do?” The hearings have filled in important details and added confir...
With obstruction of justice for all
This week kicked off the public phase of the impeachment inquiry. On Wednesday, we heard the testimonies of State Department officials Bill Taylor and...
The biggest difference between Trump and Nixon is Fox News
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A no-BS guide to how the House impeachment process really works
This week, the House passed an impeachment resolution laying out how the process will work from here. There were unusual and important decisions made...
The Ukraine story is a Russia story
We talk about this as a Ukraine story. But it's also a Russia story. The leverage Trump had on Ukraine came from Russia's invasion of Crimea and conti...
The four words that will decide impeachment
This was the week of confessions. Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney admitted to a Trump administration quid quo pro with Ukraine, with c...
We are living through history
This will, in all likelihood, be the fourth time a US president is impeached. But it’ll be a devilish story to follow. Already, there are more threads...