Video: According to Congress, a president can obstruct justice. Just as long as that president is a member of the opposite political party. (JM Rieger/The Washington Post)
Not too long ago, Jeffrey Goldberg, the top editor of the Atlantic, thought that beginning an impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump would be “a formula for chaos — the sort of chaos no fractured nation needs.”
But last Wednesday night, the magazine published an issue whose cover was dominated by a single word in huge red letters (roughly 370-point type): "IMPEACH."
A smaller sub-headline previewed the historically rooted 8,000-word argument within, written by Yoni Appelbaum: "It's time for Congress to judge the president's fitness to serve.