The Trump defense team's resident legal surrealist insists that presidents can abuse their power in the service of their political careers.

With acquittal a foregone conclusion, Trump's accusers and defenders strive to reach audiences beyond the Senate.

In its laser focus on military restraint, the present debate about endless war overlooks the financial architecture of U.S. empire.

Taking a cue from the grifter in chief, the president's former national security adviser plotted his own big payout.

A conservative legal scholar presents an exculpation of the president that's worth engaging.

Attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week say they're worried about global warming. But they're also looking out for their business models.

Republican lawmakers have routinely dodged responsibility for the president's misdeeds by playing dumb. That path is no longer available.

How a discredited foreign policy ideology continues to wreak havoc in Washington and around the world

In lieu of a spectacular indictment of a corrupt president, Democrats have built a delicately designed legal trap that will never be sprung.

Trump's planned expansion of his travel ban is part of a broader authoritarian Big Data grab.

The celebrity attorney has spent much of his career defending the interests of scandal-plagued elites—and profiting from it.

Trump's boasts and lies about the conflict with Iran perfectly encapsulate America's petty, TV-addled, and increasingly degenerate president.

Impeachment will be a test of whether the world's greatest deliberative body still exists in a moral universe.

If this recursive way of thinking about politics captures our imagination, it will imperil America's future.

It's also great for fossil fuel companies.

Why isn't anyone talking about North Macedonia's accession into America's most important strategic alliance?

Recent revelations suggest that the depths of the president's crimes won't be fully plumbed by an impeachment trial.

For more than a decade, the designation has meant very little beyond self-serving press releases and bad reporting.

The Vermont senator is suddenly the specter haunting Trump and his allies, and they're hastily pivoting to an attack mode.

Other targets of Trump's strikes were “bad dudes” … as well as recipients of American payoffs in the Iraq War.