The evolution of impeachment, or this time we’ll be pining for a sticky Gap dress

Like everything else in Trumpian Washington, impeachment would make previous iterations seem both sane and dignified.

The word ‘impeachment’ is back in circulation for obvious reason,. and Lisa Van Dusen writes that you can’t help but wonder if maybe Nancy Pelosi is right when she says President Donald Trump is actually trying to get removed from office. Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

June 19, 2019

On the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 21, 1998, I did what I’d been doing every morning since I’d started just weeks earlier on the desk at United Press International in Washington, D.C., two blocks from the White House. I went to Starbucks on 14th Street, ordered a coffee and started rea...

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