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Many more criminal indictments under Trump, Reagan and Nixon than under Obama, Clinton and Carter

A Facebook post claimed that there have been 317 criminal indictments in the administrations of three recent Republican presidents — Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon — and only three indictments under three recent Democratic presidents — Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.

Ken Hughes

Some facts in the movie ‘The Irishman’ are in dispute. Was that Baltimore concrete plant for real?

“The book is fictional," said Kenneth J. Hughes, historian with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. "There’s no real reason to believe it. That said, Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is fictional too. And it’s great. And ‘The Irishman’ is a great movie too.” (Full disclosure: This reporter worked with Hughes at the Miller Center years ago.)

Ken Hughes

Op-Ed: Will Taiwanese voters choose closer ties with China over democratic freedoms?

As Taiwanese voters prepare to go to the polls Saturday to elect their next president, they are choosing between two candidates who take fundamentally different positions on an issue whose implications go far beyond Taiwan: how to preserve a country’s democracy and freedom while maintaining economic relations with a neighboring giant that wants to subsume it.

Syaru Shirley Lin

Eric Edelman on the Iranian mindset and response

Senior Fellow Eric Edelman explains Iran's response to the killing of Qasem Soleimani.

Eric Edelman

Impeachment

Congressional Republicans abandon Watergate precedents

Once, not so long ago, congressional Republicans were impeachment’s constitutional stalwarts.

The Conversation

Congressional Republicans abandon constitutional heritage and Watergate precedents in defense of Trump

Once, not so long ago, congressional Republicans were impeachment’s constitutional stalwarts. They stood up for the House of Representatives’ “sole power of impeachment,” a power granted in the Constitution, including the right to subpoena witnesses and evidence. Even when the president under investigation was a Republican. Even when the Republican political base threatened to turn against them. But that was when the president was Richard Nixon, not Donald Trump.

Ken Hughes