Quinta Jurecic
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Erin Scott / Reuters The Utter Ridiculousness of the U.S. Senate
The world’s greatest deliberative body? Really?
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s Impeachment Brief Is a Howl of Rage
The document released by the president’s lawyers reads more like the scream of a wounded animal than a traditional legal filing.
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Loren Elliott / Reuters The Senate Trial Will Be Totally Predictable—With One Potential for Surprise
Prepare for peak tedium.
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Carlos Jasso / Reuters Pelosi and McConnell Are Playing High-Stakes Poker
A guide for the perplexed to the House-Senate standoff over impeachment
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Serious Silliness of Impeachment
The constitutional drama now playing out may feel like a circus, but the antics of the two parties are more than mere jousting: They are efforts to shape how the story will be understood for years to come.
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Erin Schaff / The New York Times The Remedy for Mitch McConnell
The Senate majority leader seems uninterested in fulfilling his constitutional duties.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters If the Witnesses Could Exonerate Trump, Why Aren’t They Testifying?
Trump’s defenders suggest that White House aides could exculpate the president—but the evidence suggests otherwise.
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Pool / Reuters The Return of the Mueller Report
As the Judiciary Committee drafts its articles of impeachment, it will have to decide how much of the special counsel’s findings it wants to include.
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Loren Elliott / Reuters What Impeachment Is Revealing About the Republican Party
Trump’s Senate trial will force voters to evaluate nihilism as the governing philosophy of a political movement.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters How to Tell If Trump Is Winning
The president is turning to the same strategies he used against Robert Mueller to fend off Congress.
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Alex Brandon / AP Stop Waiting for a Savior
A public once enamored of Robert Mueller now turns its eyes to a cadre of career diplomats.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Ukraine Transcripts Are a Road Map for Impeachment
Witnesses are providing Congress with the record of presidential misbehavior it needs.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Trump Is Running Out of Defenses
Has the expectation that presidents will act in a public-spirited matter now also become a partisan stance?
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP The Humiliation of Katie Hill Offers a Warning
Women have been degraded on the internet for a long time—but using nonconsensual pornography for partisan ends dramatizes the dangers anew.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump’s Tantrums Won’t Make Impeachment Go Away
The president’s critics and his defenders spent the week debating rules.
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Alex Edelman / Getty Why the Kavanaugh Confirmation Still Haunts Us
The power of the stories is how normal they are.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Marker of an Authoritarian
Trump insists on editing reality to conform to his own needs—if necessary, with a Sharpie.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Impeachment, but Without the Moral Clarity
The House Judiciary Committee takes the first step—but also brings a vital constitutional process down to the level of political horse-trading.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Kamala Harris’s Mistake
A presidential candidate shouldn’t be endorsing the potential prosecution of a political opponent.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Mueller Counted on Institutions to Grapple With His Report. They Didn’t.
Neither Congress nor the press did enough to tell the American people what they needed to know.
