It will set a precedent for political behavior – what actions by presidents are acceptable? – and how and when Congress can hold them accountable.
Author: Susan Page, USA TODAY
With plain language and open emotion, Biden urges shaken nation to regain its footing in wake of divisive president
The Capitol riot isn’t the biggest challenge the new president is facing, with COVID and economic repercussions looming.
Not just the House: From golf pros to the Central Park Carousel, President Donald Trump is rebuffed
No president has ever found himself so shunned and so isolated, with repercussions for his political legacy and his earnings potential.
Competing parties, clashing realities: Campaign’s final sprint opens as conventions end
The Republican and Democratic conventions didn’t so much change the political landscape as sharpen the differences, and underscore the stakes.
The setting was the message: For Democrats, a stark convention for a stark moment
Pictures of convention delegates in silly hats would have seemed tone deaf after warnings of threats to democracy and mourning for COVID-19 deaths.
You have to win first: What Joe Biden’s pick of Kamala Harris tells us about Biden
By choosing Kamala Harris as his running mate, Joe Biden signals that he doesn’t want to rock the boat in this campaign, and he doesn’t hold a grudge.
Appreciation: For John Lewis, a lifetime of making ‘good trouble’ left scars and a legacy
The iconic civil rights leader was all about bridges, from marching in Selma in 1965 to providing links to a new generation of racial protests today.
Exclusive: John Bolton says Trump’s White House was ‘like living inside a pinball machine’
When John Bolton posed for a USA TODAY photo, he held aloft his new memoir with a grin, mimicking Trump’s photo op with a Bible at St. John’s Church.
USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll: Six months out, Biden jumps to lead over Trump amid coronavirus concerns
The deadly pandemic has done what impeachment did not: Cost President Trump his national lead over Joe Biden, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll shows.
Trump on the defensive: A White House coronavirus briefing becomes a campaign rally
It is rare for a president to use the White House briefing room for such a fervent defense of himself, especially while a crisis is still unfolding.