Abbreviated pundit roundup: Public phase of impeachment inquiry to begin
We begin today’s roundup with Eugene Robinson at The Washington Post who reflects on the upcoming public stage of the House impeachment inquiry:Soon the depositions that the House Intelligence...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump struggling to find a viable defense for his...
We begin today’s roundup with Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes who write in The Atlantic that Donald Trump is running out of defenses for his conduct:The message Trump’s allies used to tar the chief...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The latest on the impeachment inquiry
We begin the impeachment inquiry with the man who, aside from Donald Trump, appears central to the misconduct that’s being uncovered under oath — Attorney General William Barr. Here’s Dana Milbank’s...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Nikki Haley all in for Trump
We begin today’s roundup with Michelle Cottle at The New York Times and her take on Nikki Haley’s book and her call for administration officials (current and former) to publicly speak the truth:Nikki...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The corrupt quid pro quo, a failed hearsay...
We begin today’s roundup with Fareed Zakaria and his account of how the corrupt quid pr quo was almost televised:Imagine Zelensky’s dilemma. By the time I met with him in Kyiv, he knew the aid had been...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Deconstructing the president's defenses
We begin today’s roundup with analyses of Donald Trump’s defenses to the House impeachment inquiry. First up, The Nation’s John Nichols takes on the “but Ukraine ultimately received the aid!”...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Republicans ignore the facts to defend Trump
We begin today’s roundup with Eugene Robinson and his analysis of the Republican Party’s defense of Donald Trump:Arms for dirt. That was the exchange Trump demanded, using as leverage taxpayer funds...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Articles of impeachment, Trump's support, and more
We begin today’s roundup with Robert Baird’s piece at The New Yorker previewing the House articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, featuring insight from Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, who was...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Holding the president accountable
We begin today’s post-Thanksgiving roundup with an op-ed by fired Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer:On Nov. 14, partly because the president had already contacted me twice, I sent him a note asking...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Barr's loyalty to Trump, Republican defenses, and...
We begin today’s roundup with Matt Stieb and his analysis of William Barr’s loyalty to Donald Trump:In light of the Attorney General’s past actions safeguarding the president from accountability for...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: House to draft articles of impeachment
We begin today’s roundup with Eugene Robinson on Donald Trump's conduct and Speaker Pelosi’s announcement that the House will begin drafting articles of impeachment against him:President Trump...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Protecting the president
We begin today’s roundup with Politico’s analysis of how Attorney General William Barr and Rudy Giuliani are trying to protect Donald Trump at all costs:The work of Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Impeaching a corrupt president
We begin today’s roundup with USA Today’s editorial in favor of impeachment:In his thuggish effort to trade American arms for foreign dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, Trump...
View ArticleAbbreviated Pundit Roundup: Pressure mounts on Republicans to put country...
We begin today’s roundup with the Washington Post’s editorial calling on Republicans to be on the right side of history when it comes to holding Donald Trump accountable:Some representatives are...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The president's immoral conduct
We begin today’s roundup with an editorial from Christianity Today, making the case that the President should be removed from office for his violations of the Constitution and immoral conduct:The...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: America's lost decade, 2019 champions and more
We begin today’s roundup with Paul Krugman’s analysis of what he calls “America’s lost decade” where policies were skewed toward the wealthy:Why do a small number of rich people exert so much influence...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: New Year's Eve edition
We begin the last roundup of 2019 with an overview of the last year from Susan Glasser at The New Yorker:Even now, three years into the Trump Presidency, there is no language to fully capture the...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Democrats continue to argue a meticulous legal...
We begin today’s roundup with analysis by Sam Brodey, Erin Banco, and Jackie Kucinich at The Daily Beast on the Democrats’ Senate trial strategy:[I]f the Democratic impeachment managers’ presentations...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Caucus chaos
We begin today’s roundup with Eric Levitz at New York Magazine and his take on the chaos of yesterday’s Iowa caucuses:The “first-in-the-nation” Iowa caucuses died Monday night after a protracted battle...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's cruel budget
We begin today’s roundup with analysis of Donald Trump’s budget which makes drastic cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and more. First up, Dana Milbank: Trump’s budget is a tremendous fraud — and it lays...
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