There’s a way to make Republicans pay for defending the president’s abuses of power — After two weeks of often explosive testimony in the impeachment inquiry, Democrats may try to wrap it up quickly, something Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed intent on from the beginning. But that would be a mistake. The hearings should go on — and on and on — until no stone is…

It’s never going to get better. The sooner Republican senators admit this, the better for all of us. — Donald Trump’s presidency is unraveling. House impeachment inquiry hearings have netted bombshell testimony and are about to move to a new public phase. Soon, Americans will see powerful witnesses lighting up their TV screens. With the House formally voting for the inquiry, the only questions left are how soon until…

The distraught wives and girlfriends of Trump voters have built a community around my radio show — Days before the 2018 midterm elections, a woman named Lisa was driving on a remote road in sun-baked Eastern Washington. An area that encompasses all of the state East of the Cascade Range — which is to say, most of the state — Eastern Washington over the past decade has…

And Mayor Pete Buttigieg is responsible for it. — Vice president Mike Pence has spoken very carefully on LGBTQ rights — in a sort of code language — ever since taking office. Whereas he once emphatically stated that same-sex marriage would cause “societal collapse” and vigorously pushed a law in 2015 in Indiana that would allow businesses to turn…