impeachment

Three misunderstood aspects of our governmental system, and the truth pulled directly from the Federalist Papers

Liesl Schillinger Considers the Impeachment of Donald Trump vs. the Indictment of George III.

The Nixon impeachment proceedings and their parallels with the Trump-Ukraine scandal.

Nancy Pelosi's reluctance to impeach Trump only denies the reality of his transgressions.

The shift in attitudes about Nixon's impeachment suggests that Congress' actions can shape public opinion.

The Mueller report raised the issue the Constitution’s framers feared in 1787: abuse of presidential power.

Scholars disagree on existing precedents—and the question won’t be settled until evidence leads a prosecutor to try it.

Experience the Watergate impeachment hearings and television broadcasts as so many did in 1973.

Mueller and his team are facing a president who seems willing to take down the entire democratic apparatus to save his own skin.

What we can learn about the current moment from Congress' efforts to impeach Andrew Johnson.

What President Richard Nixon’s Twitter account might have looked like during Watergate, had social media existed in the 1970s.

James Comey’s testimony joins the pantheon of dramatic congressional moments.

Read this before you start printing tickets for an impeachment trial.

It’s Andrew Johnson, not Andrew Jackson, who provides the best model for Trump’s collapsing presidency.

A journalist who covered Nixon’s fall explains why the current scandal may be more of a national emergency.

One interpretation presents the country as irredeemably tainted by its past. Another contends that the United States has also tended toward egalitarianism.

After the Civil War, Jefferson Davis, was to be tried for treason. Does the debacle hold lessons for the trials awaiting Donald Trump?

How family political dynasties in America came to be.

William O. Douglas was a strong advocate of conservation, but as a Supreme Court justice his involvement in such issues was often ethically questionable.

Caribbean islands as U.S. territories within an American empire has since the start sparked fierce debates.