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PoliticsYahoo News OpinionTo impeach or not to impeach? How Democrats should weigh the question.
Impeachment isn’t just a legal remedy. Nor is it a way for opposition parties to negate the results of an election, no matter how clouded by allegations of wrongdoing. It’s a political tool. It’s designed specifically to carry out the public will.
PoliticsYahoo News OpinionKamala Harris isn't afraid to show anger. That's progress — but is it good politics?
The central question for Democrats in 2020 is whether they can give an acceptable alternative to voters who handed Trump his margin of victory last time. About the only way to ensure his reelection is to enable him to make this about white, male America versus everyone else.
PoliticsYahoo News OpinionDear debaters: You don't need a 'breakout moment' to break through
The political media seems deeply invested in the “breakout moment” idea. But you can’t manufacture something like that, and if someone tells you to, you’re getting bad advice. At this early stage of the campaign there are subtler, more attainable ways to have success.
PoliticsYahoo NewsElizabeth Warren is running the year's most substantive campaign. What does that say about everyone else?
Warren is just doing what a presidential candidate is supposed to do — offer some larger argument for what government ought to look like. What makes her so notable is how little any of the other candidates seem to have thought about this at all.
PoliticsYahoo News OpinionHere's what's wrong with the Democrats' debate plan
The debate process assigns absolutely zero value to the thing that ought to matter a lot in a presidential campaign, and especially in this one: actual experience in governing.
PoliticsYahoo News OpinionTrump confuses nationalism with patriotism. We shouldn't.
We’re the only country that has, from the beginning, defined patriotism as fealty to a series of principles, rather than to a monarch or a common identity. Trump’s attempt to reverse that formulation is stunning.
PoliticsYahoo News OpinionWhat the polls can't tell you about the coming campaign
In a campaign like this one, it’s not the level of broad interest in a candidacy that matters most, but rather the narrow base of unshakable support that can keep it afloat. It’s about staying power, which polls don’t really measure.
PoliticsYahoo News OpinionTrump should tell Americans the truth about his trade war — if he understands it himself
There’s a reason we call it a trade war. Wars have casualties. Winning them always comes with a cost, and it’s a cost the citizenry has to be willing to bear.
PoliticsYahoo News OpinionWhat I got wrong about Nancy Pelosi
If you had asked me 10 or 15 years ago, when I was chronicling the path of Democratic politics for the New York Times Magazine and for a book, I’d have told you Nancy Pelosi was a true ideologue at heart.
PoliticsYahoo News OpinionWhy Mueller's report won't matter much in 2020
Democrats already know how they feel about Trump. What they want is a nominee who won’t become inexorably swallowed up in Trump’s all-consuming vortex of personal insults and cultural smears.
PoliticsYahoo News OpinionStephen Miller stokes Trump's nationalist vision
Of Trump’s advisers, only Stephen Miller has consistently proffered a grander notion of what this presidency might be made to mean — the retrenchment of white culture into nativism and national identity.
PoliticsYahoo NewsJohn Hickenlooper wants to be the last Democrat standing. He'll need a plan.
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper puts himself forth as a politician who bridges what are supposed to be unbridgeable divides.
PoliticsYahoo NewsDoes the media owe Trump an apology?
Even the country’s best newspapers and websites present almost everything the administration does in dramatic tones beyond all proportion, as if the mere act of Trump trying to govern constituted an existential threat.
PoliticsYahoo NewsDemocrats are going big. They're certainly not bold.
The current crop of Democratic candidates seem to think the hallmark of boldness is a willingness to tell reliable primary voters exactly what they’re desperate to hear, in the most dramatic terms possible.
EntertainmentYahoo NewsBeing Beto, on a trip to the mall
Inside the mind of Beto O’Rourke as he ponders the 2020 presidential race and the right pair of jeans.
PoliticsYahoo NewsIf you're interested in governing, maybe choose a governor
Governors just don’t get the kind of respect they once did in presidential politics. And that’s something Democratic voters should probably reconsider.
PoliticsYahoo NewsTrump's in trouble, but he's not going anywhere
Unless both houses of Congress are willing to impeach and convict him, don’t bet on President Trump serving anything less than a full term.
PoliticsYahoo NewsPete Buttigieg is running for president. Also, he's gay.
Pete Buttigieg would rather talk about his record as the two-term mayor of South Bend, Ind., than about his identity as the first openly gay man to seek the Democratic nomination.
PoliticsYahoo NewsTrump's rhetoric hits his wall
Our developer president could have focused his energy on building airports, high-speed rail lines and high-tech schools. But he can only think of one place to sink a shovel, and that’s turning out to be the sinkhole of his administration.
PoliticsYahoo NewsRun, Howard, run
Howard Schultz is one of very few people on the planet who had the vision to transform the way we live. He saw where the culture was headed and figured out a way to get ahead of it. No one in politics is doing that.
PoliticsYahoo NewsKasich's choice: Fight for the party, or leave it behind?
The question facing former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, if he decides to run against Trump, is this: Do you try to take out the incumbent president in the primaries, or do you make an independent bid instead?
PoliticsYahoo NewsTrump, like Gorbachev, has lost faith in what his country stands for
President Trump doesn’t think our defense of democratic values really works for America anymore, and in this he has more in common with Vladimir Putin than he does with his own Cabinet or his military.
EntertainmentYahoo NewsTrump and the shameless society: Which came first?
In Trump’s America, taking personal responsibility for anything you say or do is suddenly out of vogue, no matter which side you’re on or how petty the issue.
PoliticsYahoo NewsYes, Elizabeth Warren is a politician. That's not a bad thing for her.
Back in 2015, I sat down with President Obama, during a visit to Nike’s Oregon campus, to talk about the huge Asian trade pact he was trying to sell. It was what Obama said that day about Elizabeth Warren, who had become a vocal critic of the trade deal, that landed like a grenade. What crude and awful thing did Obama say?
PoliticsYahoo NewsThe 2040 plan for unexciting Democrats
The contrast to focus on in 2020 isn’t just right versus left. It’s short term versus long term. It’s quarterly returns versus a half century of peril.
“Like tobacco, Facebook is a dangerous product one uses at one’s own risk.”
“A key reason why this latest scandal feels more significant is that politicians on both sides of the aisle feel deceived.”
“These are clearly problems of scale, which Facebook has had many years to deal with and has been fundamentally unable to.”
“We need to recognize the danger we’re in. We need to shake the notion that Facebook is a normal company.”
“Facebook is in trouble … It’s a cloud of existential dread that hangs over an organization whose best days are behind it.”