WASHINGTON — Republicans said they wanted process, so now they have it. The question is whether President Trump’s defenders are willing, finally, to address the substance of the allegations a...
https://themoderatevoice.com/the-facts-are-only-going-to-get-worse-for-the-president/
WASHINGTON — There are moments when the U.S. Capitol feels like a sanctified space, a holy temple dedicated to ideals that transcend the partisan squabbles of the politicians who work there. Th...
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s defense against impeachment is bombastic, full of lies and incoherent to the point of lunacy, which is no surprise. Republicans are beclowning themselves to pre...
https://themoderatevoice.com/the-gops-bootlicking-cowardice-knows-no-bounds/
WASHINGTON — Impeachment of a president is a deeply serious affair. Efforts by President Trump and his defenders to explain away his clear-as-day abuse of power are providing a bit of comic rel...
https://themoderatevoice.com/the-laughable-republican-defense-of-the-indefensible/
WASHINGTON — I want to hear the Democratic presidential candidates explain, convincingly, how they’re going to beat Donald Trump. Then I want to hear how they propose to repair the devastatin...
https://themoderatevoice.com/trump-administration-is-more-game-of-thrones-than-west-wing/
WASHINGTON — “It is impossible to prepare for an apocalypse,” Dr. Duane Sands, the health minister of the Bahamas, told reporters Sunday. Somehow, though, we all had better try. Those who h...
https://themoderatevoice.com/help-hurricane-victims-but-also-fight-to-stop-climate-change/
WASHINGTON — This doesn’t qualify as earth-shattering news at this point, but President Trump showed us again this week how spectacularly ignorant, vainglorious and obsessive he can be. This ...
https://themoderatevoice.com/trumps-bogus-map-embodies-the-man/
WASHINGTON — The big news in the Democratic presidential race is that not much has changed since Joe Biden jumped in. To be sure, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has steadily gained ground,...
WASHINGTON — Is it my imagination, or is President Trump’s chronic and debilitating case of Obama Envy getting worse? One of the things that genuinely seems to matter to Trump is comparing hi...
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WASHINGTON — Uh-oh. President Trump is in such a state of panic about his dimming reelection prospects that he’s getting his lies mixed up and occasionally blurting out the truth. “It’s t...
https://themoderatevoice.com/trump-is-panicking-that-his-reality-show-presidency-wont-be-renewed/
WASHINGTON — Someday, in the not-so-distant future, sea-level rise could claim Mar-a-Lago. Perhaps President Trump — by then no doubt disgraced, shunned and all but forgotten — would still ...
https://themoderatevoice.com/trumps-climate-denial-could-hasten-the-demise-of-his-own-empire/
WASHINGTON — The erratic Trump administration has had just one consistent policy principle, one guiding North Star: punitive and often sadistic treatment of nonwhite immigrants. President Trump...
WASHINGTON — It is not just his stoking of white supremacist sentiment that makes Donald Trump such a dangerously unfit president. It’s also the corruption, the weakness, the ignorance, the i...
https://themoderatevoice.com/trump-grotesquely-made-his-visits-to-dayton-and-el-paso-all-about-him/
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party may not have pulled the triggers, but they still bear some responsibility for the weekend’s atrocities. The only w...
https://themoderatevoice.com/sensible-gun-reform-requires-taking-the-senate/