Tag: president trump
Oct. 25, 2019
Dumping the Kurds, or Donald Trump’s Midas Touch
America has lost three wars in the Middle East in this century — not counting the one with our most persistent foe, Iran. We lost…
Oct. 18, 2019
The Ukranian double-edged sword: how we got here
Donald Trump is going to be impeached. It is as certain as the sunrise now. Only three months ago, though, the odds on it were…
Oct. 11, 2019
Impeachment is the worst-case scenario
I can remember the restless election night in 2016 when I learned, at The Triangle offices, that Donald Trump would become the 45th president of…
Oct. 11, 2019
Self-impeachment appears to be Trump’s 2020 strategy
Donald J. Trump is now the fourth of our presidents to face impeachment. Two of them, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, actually were impeached, although…
Oct. 4, 2019
Impeachment in Washington, Storm over London
Something is happening that’s never happened before: the world’s two oldest democracies, Britain and the United States, are simultaneously experiencing constitutional crises they haven’t faced…
Sep. 27, 2019
History is repeating itself inside England’s Parliament
Karl Marx said that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and the second as farce. Of course, that doesn’t preclude tragedy following the…
Aug. 16, 2019
The Mueller Hearings: Tragedy, Dereliction, and Farce
The Mueller hearings have come and gone, leaving us predictably no closer to a resolution of our constitutional crisis and shorn of any remaining illusion…
Jun. 7, 2019
The Mueller report isn’t enough to absolve or convict Trump
Last week, after two years as Special Counsel to the Justice Department’s investigation of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election and related matters, and…
May. 31, 2019
Dancing towards perdition: The Don and Nancy Show
As I’ve said before, I believe that when a president commits impeachable offenses on a regular basis, there is a Constitutional duty to call him…
May. 31, 2019
Speaker of The House, Nancy Pelosi v. President Trump
The President and the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, have had a famously turbulent relationship. Last week, however, things came to a boil. Pelosi…