Todd S. Purdum
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The End of What, Exactly?
President Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate was a milestone in jaded bureaucracy.
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Tom Brenner / Getty Democrats Never Found Their Hero
Representative Adam Schiff played every card he had in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, but none seemed to work.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The New Question Hanging Over the Impeachment Trial
Corroboration of President Trump’s alleged abuse of power will change everything … or nothing at all.
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SAUL LOEB / Joe Raedle / Getty / ... Error and Trial
What’s it like to go from serious presidential candidate to just another of 100 senators?
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Erin Schaff / AP Who Plays by the Rules?
Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer provide a revealing look at today’s rubber-and-glue politics.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters The Solemn Absurdity of Trump’s Impeachment Trial
As senators embarked on their first day of proceedings, the occasional yawn and rubbing of the eyes emphasized the pointlessness of the whole affair.
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Erin Schaff / The New York Times / ... America’s Love-Hate Relationship With Adam Schiff
The California congressman is a villain to the right and a rock star to the left. And he’s more powerful than ever.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters This Is Not Where Nancy Pelosi Wanted to Be
But she’s probably okay with that.
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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters The Return of Jerry Nadler
The Judiciary Committee, which he chairs, is fractious and unruly. And it’s about to take over impeachment.
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Olivier Douliery / Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / ... The Made-for-TV Impeachment
On rare occasions, congressional hearings beat gritty HBO dramas in entertainment value.
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Atsushi Nishijima The Government Report That Got Turned Into a Hollywood Movie
How Scott Z. Burns tackled his feature directorial debut, a gripping film about the inquiry into the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” program
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Leah Millis / Reuters Where Did Rudy Go?
He once consoled a shaken nation. Now he’s screaming about conspiracies on cable news.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Trump’s Game of Chicken
The president has finally settled on his impeachment strategy.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Impeachment for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Thanks to a coming media storm, our 45th president is now inextricably linked to impeachment, whether he survives it or not.
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Mark Wilson / Win McNamee / Rick Wilking ... How to Survive Impeachment
Former staffers reflect on keeping a besieged administration from falling apart during a scandal.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Trump’s Attacks on California Are Shortsighted
The rest of the country has historically followed the Golden State’s lead—whether the president likes it or not.
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Win McNamee / Getty Adam Schiff’s Last Laugh (For Now)
The House Intelligence Committee chairman has spent months illuminating Trump’s alleged misdeeds with little result. Perhaps that’s about to change.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Crime-Bill Debate Shows How Short Americans’ Memories Are
In hindsight, complicated policy conversations get flattened into stark shades of right and wrong.
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Erik Kabik / MediaPunch / IPX / AP Did Bill Clinton See This Coming?
On his 73rd birthday, the former MVP of the Democratic Party has been sidelined—perhaps for good.
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Christy Bowe / Corbis / Getty Democrats of All Ages Agree on Nothing
How did Democratic Party icons like Barack Obama come to symbolize all the problems of yore?
