Washington • A central challenge of the Trump era is how to deal urgently with the president’s transgressions while also taking steps to prevent politicians from abusing power in the future.
Equally important is restoring faith in our republican democracy as a genuinely representative system that is open to broad participation and protected from the outsized influence of the financially privileged.
President Trump is doing far more to pollute the political “swamp” he loves to invoke than draining it. But this doesn’t mean that citizens worried about the swampiness of our politics are wrong.
So here's a challenge to citizens and the media alike: Pay attention this week to the House debate over H.