Congress

Impeach Trump Rally

Impeachment Is the Cure for Our Constitutional Crisis Impeachment Is the Cure for Our Constitutional Crisis

We must recognize the threat posed by a president who imagines himself to be above the law.

Aug 28, 2018 / John Nichols

Reckoning With John McCain

Reckoning With John McCain Reckoning With John McCain

Respecting the best of McCain requires grappling with the rest of McCain.

Aug 27, 2018 / Timothy Patrick McCarthy

McCain and Feingold

John McCain and Russ Feingold’s Joint Effort to Restore Democracy John McCain and Russ Feingold’s Joint Effort to Restore Democracy

The two very different senators established a working relationship to challenge the money power that even in the 1990s was beginning to render the Capitol dysfunctional.

Aug 27, 2018 / John Nichols

Michael Cohen hearing

Donald Trump’s Fixer Says the President Engaged in a Criminal Conspiracy to Sway the 2016 Election Donald Trump’s Fixer Says the President Engaged in a Criminal Conspiracy to Sway the 2016 Election

That’s impeachable.

Aug 22, 2018 / John Nichols

Elizabeth Warren Woburn Town Hall

Elizabeth Warren Could Make a Great Run for President as an Anti-Corruption Crusader Elizabeth Warren Could Make a Great Run for President as an Anti-Corruption Crusader

She’s got a plan to drain the swamp that is Donald Trump’s Washington. If she takes it on the campaign trail, that’s terrific.

Aug 21, 2018 / John Nichols

In the Dark Days of Trump, There Are Still Sweet Victories to Celebrate

In the Dark Days of Trump, There Are Still Sweet Victories to Celebrate In the Dark Days of Trump, There Are Still Sweet Victories to Celebrate

Progressive victories are reaffirming the shared humanity that Americans across the political spectrum are standing up to defend.

Aug 21, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Tahirah Amatul-Wadud

Can Tahirah Amatul-Wadud Become the Next Progressive Woman to Unseat an Incumbent? Can Tahirah Amatul-Wadud Become the Next Progressive Woman to Unseat an Incumbent?

The Muslim mother of seven is betting that she, too, can take down a high-ranking career politician, in Massachusetts’s First Congressional District.

Aug 17, 2018 / Will Meyer

Russia Sanctions Currency Exchange

Sanction Mania vs. Russia Sanction Mania vs. Russia

For nearly 100 years, Russia has been under US sanctions, often to the detriment of American national security.

Aug 15, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

Kaniela Ing Candidate in the Democratic Primaries in Hawai

The Left Is Winning Even When It Loses The Left Is Winning Even When It Loses

Tough primaries don’t change the fact that leftist policies are very popular. 

Aug 13, 2018 / Sean McElwee, Jon Green, and Colin McAuliffe

devin nunes

Devin Nunes Is the Exact Constitution-Shredding Miscreant the Founders Feared Devin Nunes Is the Exact Constitution-Shredding Miscreant the Founders Feared

And he should resign.

Aug 10, 2018 / John Nichols

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