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Is impeachment only about getting a conviction?

Stephanie McCurry The Nation
As a tool to constrain executive abuse of power and as a way to publicize dissent on matters of policy and principle, the Johnson impeachment suggests that impeachment itself is the measure of success, however remote the likelihood of conviction.

The Center Cannot Hold

Elizabeth Bruenig The New York Times
Bernie Sanders’s strong showing in Iowa is a turning point in the battle between the party’s establishment and left wing.

Trump Is a Brazen Liar About Social Security

Nancy J. Altman Independent Media Institute
Despite his repeated claims that he would never cut Social Security, as early as 2000 Trump has publicly displayed utter contempt for Social Security and its beneficiaries, referring to it as a Ponzi scheme.

Henry James and Pigs’ Feet

Gene Seymour Bookforum
Ralph Ellison's letters make an excellent counterpart to Invisible Man, his great novel of 1952.

The Measure of Our Happiness

H. Patricia Hynes Common Dreams
The highest-ranking countries in the World Happiness Report are those that have “strong social welfare systems and an emphasis on equality.”