Editor’s note: As this country enters a new decade and tries to put the first two tumultuous decades of this new century behind us, Americans face a peril unknown in the country’s 220 year history: a president who would willingly trade our democratic form of government for that of an autocracy, and a Republican Party led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and U.S. Attorney General William Barr that would willingly go along. To that end, how the U.S. Senate handles President Trump’s impeachment trial … (read more)