The 2020 U.S. presidential election is playing out in the shadow of disinformation, but few candidates are promising to take action against it. Elizabeth Warren has a plan, but it’s not perfect.

Democratic candidates for president have spent relatively little time discussing Justice Department independence on the campaign trail—in contrast to the first post-Watergate presidential election, when ...

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If the president tries to go after career civil servants, he may trigger some significant legal consequences—including renewed scrutiny of his own conduct.

How did the Trump impeachment defense team deploy OLC memos to defend the president?

The disaster of the Iowa caucuses is a vivid illustration of how public reaction to a mishap can be worse than the mishap itself.

The impeachment process in the House was hardly perfect—and the way that process played out made it far less likely, rather than more likely, that Republican or conservative voters, politicians or activi...