Why these TV impeachment hearings won’t matter as much as Watergate’s
The public is rightly interested in Watergate parallels today, but right now it’s the differences between the two sets of hearings that are the most striking.
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Five myths about the Constitution
The First Amendment wasn’t always first.
OK, boomer. The kids are fighting back.
All they need are two words, dripping with dismissal.
Five myths about Kurds
No, they aren’t deserted and doomed.
Five myths about vaping
No, it’s not as harmful as smoking cigarettes, and it doesn’t cause “popcorn lung.”
Five myths about Hispanics
They’re not a racial group. And they’re not all opposed to Trump.
Five myths about testosterone
No, it didn’t cause the 2008 market crash.
Five myths about aging
No, antioxidants and longer telomeres are not the answer to immortality
So you want to talk about lynching? Understand this first.
If you are unwilling to do this work - and it is work - then leave that word alone.
This town turned its opioid nightmare into a haunted house. And it’s terrifying.
The Centreville, Maryland, haunted house will have scenes from a drug den, a frightening arrest, a court hearing, a jail cell, a wrenching family crisis, a harrowing overdose. It’s a walking, shrieking, living, screaming PSA.
Mitch McConnell: Withdrawing from Syria is a grave mistake
The recently announced pullout risks repeating Obama’s mistakes in the Middle East.
Elijah Cummings and I were political opponents. We were also good friends.
We always tried to understand why each of us believed what we believed.
The deficit has gotten worse. This shouldn’t be a surprise.
Even Trump’s own economic advisers, such as Stephen Moore, now admit 5% economic growth was never remotely feasible.
Five myths about Mike Pence
He’s neither the shadow president nor a mere bystander.
Matt Lauer and the problems with his ‘consensual sex’ defense
With his simplistic response, he shuts down conversations about consent, power imbalances and victim psychology.
Removing Trump may be unlikely -- but not impossible
The president could end up forcing Senate Republicans to rethink their loyalty to him.
Trump’s cry that America is fighting ‘endless wars’ is a canard
The days when we deployed hundreds of thousands of troops in the Middle East are long gone.
Joe Biden is a hypocrite on Ukraine
It was on Biden’s watch that the United States refused to deliver military aid.
The Senate GOP’s no-win scenario
The political hell most Senate Republicans have found themselves in since 2016 can be described as the chasm between how Trump wants them to behave and how they believe they should govern.