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Impeachment

Why Donald Trump is more dangerous than Andrew Johnson

While both presidents are demagogues who faced impeachment, today’s political reality means that Trump can do more damage.

Sidney Milkis and Daniel Tichenor

Support grows for impeachment inquiry in new polls

Senior Fellow Chris Lu is interviewed on MSNBC.

Chris Lu

The American dream tinged with fraud

With just over a year until our next presidential election, our country feels deeply divided over the American dream. Do we still believe in it? Is it a lie? Across history, authors, poets and musicians — from Harriet Beecher Stowe and Walt Whitman to Woody Guthrie and Toni Morrison — have wrestled with the idea that all Americans are created equal, with equal rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. At a moment when white working-class men might determine the future of the country in next year’s presidential election, an iconic American voice — Bruce Springsteen — is ret

William Antholis

Trump's Ukraine call and Nixon's Watergate increasingly drawing parallels as scandal erupts

Trump's efforts to lean on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reminiscent of the way Nixon created a team of secret investigators, known as "the plumbers," to find incriminating or embarrassing evidence about his enemies, said Ken Hughes, a leading Watergate authority and research specialist at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.

Ken Hughes

What's in Trump's Super Classified Server and Why Is He Hiding Things There

Chris Lu, who managed President Obama's first cabinet, told Motherboard that the "potential White House coverup" and the attempt to coerce Ukraine into investigating Biden is "already the biggest scandal of the Trump administration, and that's saying a lot."

Chris Lu

Pence seeks to dodge impeachment spotlight as his Ukrainian moves attract notice

Russell Riley, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, said Pence’s cautious approach was reminiscent of vice president Al Gore during Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998. “There is a conundrum with being the vice president of the United States in a controversial administration, because everybody knows that you are the heir apparent in case something happens,” he said. “You have to be exceedingly guarded.”

Russell Riley