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Elizabeth Drew
By Elizabeth Drew - Feb 20,2021
WASHINGTON, DC  —  The US Senate’s failure to convict Donald Trump for instigating the January 6 riot in the Capitol, for which the House of Representatives had impeached him, leaves the question of whether the US Congress has any effective means of holding a president
By Elizabeth Drew - Feb 02,2021
WASHINGTON, DC  —  Joe Biden knows enough about the US presidency to understand that the first few weeks are the easiest and most pleasant.
By Elizabeth Drew - Oct 28,2020
WASHINGTON, DC — Following the US elections on November 3, although its final resolution may take longer, the partisan arrangements of almost the entire US federal government are subject to change.
By Elizabeth Drew - Oct 04,2020
WASHINGTON, DC — America’s capital is more on edge now than at perhaps any other time since the eve of the Civil War in 1860. The city was tense during Watergate, of course.
By Elizabeth Drew - Jun 10,2020
WASHINGTON, DC — It has been a calamity for the United States that, when two national tragedies, the COVID-19 crisis and the country’s legacy of racism, collided this spring, the occupant of the White House was an unstable person, totally unfit to govern.President Donald Trump’s
By Elizabeth Drew - Feb 24,2020
WASHINGTON, DC — The US presidential election in November is the most consequential in modern history.
By Elizabeth Drew - Feb 08,2020
WASHINGTON, DC — The fateful collision over whether US President Donald Trump should be removed from office revealed the alarming fragility of the Constitution that Americans have relied on for more than 200 years to maintain their democratic system.
By Elizabeth Drew - Jan 27,2020
WASHINGTON, DC — The recent tense, dangerous exchanges between the United States and Iran have revealed a great deal about US President Donald Trump’s management of his foreign policy. The main conclusion is that he does not have one.
By Elizabeth Drew - Dec 23,2019
WASHINGTON, DC — Much as he mocked the process for months, US President Donald Trump very much did not want to be impeached. No president does; it’s an ineradicable stain on their record. And Trump has just about never in his life been called to account.
By Elizabeth Drew - Nov 13,2019
WASHINGTON, DC — The most dismaying thing about the impeachment proceedings against US President Donald Trump is that they are falling so short of the constitutional gravamen of the issue.

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