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Reader, I Impeached Him
I do solemnly swear The literature of impeachment runs thin while its promise runs deep. How often does one do this, after all? Why should one do this? What makes the time in which one does this...
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Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment: A Model And A Warning for Trump
THE MOST ACCIDENTAL OF PRESIDENTS Like Donald Trump, hardly anyone expected Andrew Johnson to become president of the United States. If Trump seemed destined for stardom in business, young Andrew...
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Rebecca Solnit: Why the President Must Be Impeached
The other evening, when the air quality had become too poor to go outside because my state was burning, sitting in a window facing another of those apocalyptic red suns going down we’d gotten used to...
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The Case Against an American King, Then and Now
As the nation readies itself for public hearings in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald J. Trump, let’s think back to a time before there was an American president, before there was a US...
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Some smart things to read on Impeachment Day.
As George Kent and Bill Taylor ready themselves to begin public testimony in the impeachment hearings of the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, here are a few Lit Hub deeper dives on...
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Neal Katyal’s new book about impeachment will help you survive Thanksgiving...
For many of you, Thanksgiving represents an anxiety-laden series of conversational challenges. There you are, trapped at the table, trying to navigate the divergent political opinions of libertarian...
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High Comedy and Misdemeanors: The Shakespearean Drama at the Heart of...
For the last three years (and counting), the words and deeds of the Trump White House have been so outrageous in their transparent turpitude that the job of satirists—exposing hypocrisies and...
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John Bolton’s memoir probably wasn’t leaked by a heroic assistant editor.
Some very important parts of former national security adviser John Bolton’s forthcoming memoir, The Room Where It Happened: A Washington Memoir (Simon & Schuster, March 17), have leaked. The bit...
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Even the Founding Fathers Couldn’t Envision a President Like Trump
Of course President Trump was acquitted in the Senate yesterday. Any other outcome, any charge against him—not even counting the ones the House of Representatives impeached him for last December—was...
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Donald Trump Will Never Understand the Pain He Has Caused
Sometime in the night there’d been rain, a cold front in from the Atlantic. But by morning all that was gone. The clouds thinned into a blue unbroken chain, and the sunrise came on, first in the...
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