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Byline: Paul Waldman 'At last, I believe we are on the 5-yard-line,' said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday morning. As of this writing, congressional leaders have not released the [...]

Byline: Fred Barbash At the beginning of the impeachment proceedings against President Trump, the Founding Fathers were the most quotable sources. Since last week, however, Alan Dershowitz may have taken [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent As Rep. Adam Schiff continued building his case against President Trump late into Wednesday evening, Trump fired off one angry Twitter missive after another, until he finally [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent Sometime within the next couple of weeks, every GOP Senator who is facing a tough reelection campaign will have to vote on whether he or she wants [...]

Byline: Teri Carter A month after President Trump's inauguration, my dad and I stopped speaking. Sure, we disagreed politically, but we were close, and we'd kept talking until February 2017, [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin 'I think it's either fear or complicity.' That is how former Maine Republican senator and secretary of defense William S. Cohen tries to explain Republicans' subservience to [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent With the impeachment inquiry heading into its public phase, Republicans are road-testing yet another deeply absurd defense of President Trump: They are conceding that, yes, there may [...]

Byline: Seung Min Kim;Josh Dawsey In late July, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brought with him to the Oval Office a new visitor to meet President Trump: Daniel Cameron, a [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman The Donald Trump presidency has been in significant part about grift and graft right from the beginning, as the president made clear that in his Washington, everyone [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake It's hardly breaking news that President Trump has an uneasy relationship with the rule of law. He campaigned on putting his unindicted opponent in jail. He has [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips Republicans are demanding the House of Representatives hold a vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi considered it this week, then announced Tuesday night [...]

Byline: Ashlyn Still;Kevin Uhrmacher More than fifteen House Republicans have already announced they will retire or run for another office at the end of the current congressional term, compared with [...]

Byline: Steven Pearlstein Until recently, the business community's carefully calibrated waffle on the Trump presidency has been, 'We'll support him when we agree and oppose him when we don't.' So, [...]

The rhetorical intensity of President Trump's anti-impeachment campaign, measured on a scale of one to 10, has begun at 11.25. The whistleblower is 'almost a spy' who might be guilty [...]

Byline: Ed Rogers I believe in the power of panic. And I believe a little productive panic within the GOP is in order. On Tuesday, Democrats won big in a [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake President Trump is angry with his chief of staff, John Kelly, for describing his past immigration comments as 'uninformed' on Wednesday and generally talking about him like [...]

Byline: Evan McMullin Whether its leaders and members realize it, the Republican Party is at risk of becoming the Vladi -mir Putin-aligned party in the United States. It can be [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin As promised, the special election in Georgia's 6th Congressional District was nip and tuck for much of the night. Republican Karen Handel nevertheless eked out a win [...]

Byline: Ed Rogers Republican leadership and political figures everywhere need to accept the reality that President Trump, as a communicator, cannot be disciplined. So, here is the deal: Sometimes Trump [...]

Byline: Henry Olsen Monday would have been Ronald Reagan's 106th birthday. President Trump's election has caused many observers to bemoan Reagan's supposedly waning influence on today's Republican Party. But these [...]

A main cause of the rise of extremism in the world of Islam has been the cowardice of Muslim moderates, who for decades chose not to condemn bad ideas and [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman The latest Washington Post poll only confirms what everyone already knows: Though there's still a week left, and there are plenty of close races that could fall [...]