On Jan. 20, the United States confirmed its first case of the coronavirus. The nation’s political and media elite ­obsessed over Mitch McConnell’s just-announced resolution governing the impeachment trial of President Trump. On Jan. 23, China locked down the city of Wuhan. Cable news in America lit up with praise for the epic, nay historic,...

It shouldn’t be news that former National Security Adviser John Bolton can attest to a White House scheme to pressure Ukraine on investigations. The existence of this campaign, now at the center of the impeachment fight, has been obvious for months. There is no mystery here, no whodunnit, no dining-car reckoning from “Murder on the...

It’s easy to forget what President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial is supposed to be about. It isn’t a fight over whether the Senate will call a couple of witnesses that the House couldn’t, or didn’t bother to, ­obtain on its own. The underlying question is whether the United States Senate will impose the most severe...

Every hostile nickname that Mitch McConnell gets further confirms the Senate majority leader’s effectiveness. The latest is “Midnight Mitch,” a reaction to his resolution setting out the road map for the Senate impeachment trial. The measure stipulated that House impeachment managers could make their case over two days of 12-hour sessions, possibly pushing the presentations...