Jacob Heilbrunn

Impeachment ends with a whimper, despite Mitt Romney’s best efforts

Are the establishment figures of the Democratic party falling by the wayside?

But no one has done more to bolster Trump’s fortunes than Mitch McConnell

When I met him on the eve of the Iraq war, he struck me as perhaps the most straightforward of the bunch

Trump’s paladins understood that by ‘take her out’, Trump didn’t mean ask her to go to a fine restaurant or the ballet

Leading Republicans are pooh-poohing the notion that much credence should be reposed in Lev Parnas’s statements

Giuliani apparently wants to be part of Trump’s legal defense team, but it doesn’t seem likely that he’ll make the cut

The neocon dream of a liberated Baghdad ends with an emboldened and empowered Iran

Hello Donald Trump, neocon

Trump’s hardline against Iran could pay off

The crash, especially if Trump becomes entangled in a foreign war, could come sooner rather than later

He only needs to maintain support from 17 senators

The president turns the tormentors into the tormented

There’s now a definitive narrative of how Giuliani orchestrated the removal of an American ambassador

One slight in his direction and he frets about the moral fabric of America being torn apart

President talks turkey as House formalizes probe

For the Democratic patriciate, a Bloomberg candidacy rests on the idea of a return to normalcy

The moral bankruptcy of the Trump presidency is becoming more glaring by the day

The Republican strategy was to argue that the hearing was a dud