Ron Elving

In 1979, when Morning Edition debuted, the United States was entering an era in which big stories often seemed to last for months and even years — and some just never seemed to go away.

The House voted on rules governing the impeachment inquiry this week, while interviews continue.

Before this week's House vote, none of the steady drip-drip developments had quite become The Moment, the seminal event that moved the impeachment story into the category it is clearly in now.

There is great distance between Republican complaints about the process of the House impeachment inquiry and what witnesses have reportedly testified concerning White House wrongdoing.

White House disarray deepened the Ukraine scandal this week and affected America's standing abroad.

The Ukraine scandal deepened on Capitol Hill this week, as new connections to Russia came to light.

Edwin Meese III was part of Ronald Reagan's surge among "movement conservatives" who strove to rebuild the Republican Party after its disastrous defeat in the presidential election of 1964.

Accelerating revelations about the Trump administration's foreign interactions are making the House impeachment inquiry more complicated.

We recap the busy week in Washington.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now backs an impeachment inquiry. What does that mean and how different is it to the investigations that Democrats have been conducting into the president's activities?

The truth is, impeachment has almost never been popular. It tends to pump up the partisans in either party but has far less allure for independents or those less politically inclined.

Another Trump administration official is out, Democrats in the House inch slowly toward the I-word, and another presidential debate, this time with the 10 top Democratic candidates.

Something happened this week that was hard to pin down, but it was palpable. Not the contrast of night and day, but perhaps the difference between dusk and dawn.

For a generation, "Camp David" was synonymous with peace between Israel and Egypt, but the world — and the long war in Afghanistan — has come a long way from those days.

Congress returns from recess next week and they'll have much to debate, including gun control and impeachment.

A lot of focus is put on the president's job approval nationwide, but all that matters in the end is the president's standing state by state — and that leaves him with a narrow path to reelection.

We have a recap on the week in politics.

President Trump is accusing China, the Federal Reserve, and the media of hampering the economy.

American politics are echoing in the streets of Jerusalem and Hong Kong while fears of a recession are taking hold here at home.

Mitch McConnell's status stems from his post as the Senate majority leader. But few who have held this office have been able to wield it with this kind of result.