Matt Ford

The chief justice's year-end report dwells heavily on the preservation of our civic life, without noting his hand in its undoing.

If all our political disputes are destined to be settled by unelected judges, do the people even have a place in our democracy?

House Democrats are contemplating a strategy that will only bolster Republican claims that their impeachment inquiry is an election-year stunt.

*Impeached on Wednesday, December 18, 2019

The president's impeachment-eve epistle to his political opponents should quash the notion that he relishes the fight.

In a year featuring no end of Trumpian rogues, we honor the man who laid the groundwork for a constitutional crisis.

Democrats backed Trump's trade pact on the same day they introduced articles of impeachment. The optics don't matter.

The president and his defenders are ignoring the inspector general's findings and substituting their own.

Trump's allies are trying to reset the standard for "election meddling" so low that it would be hard not to meddle in an election.

House Democrats' report on Tuesday makes the case for protecting American democracy from further blows from the president.

The complexity of investigating Trump, lampooned in a legendary piece of satire, has been rendered moot (and it's not even Sunday).

Republicans who worried that the EU ambassador was going to flip were treated to a gymnastics routine.

With no coherent strategy beyond bare survival, the president's allies wildly pivot between defenses as the day slips away.

The president sends a message to his lawbreaking loyalists: Maintain silence and you'll earn your "get out of jail free" card.

One thing we're learning during impeachment hearings is that the president and his cronies are deeply invested in an uncheckable executive branch.

The House Intelligence Committee should give the president a chance to clear up this whole Ukraine matter with his first-hand knowledge.

Why didn't George Kent and William Taylor have firsthand knowledge of Trump's Ukraine activities? The president went around them on purpose.

Electoral losses in Kentucky and Virginia send conservatives down a rabbit hole of illiberalism.

As it turns out, it can be quite difficult to defend the indefensible.

A litany of naive decisions has enshrined a system in which the rot lives right out in the open.