Nation journalists respond with necessary perspective and clarity to President Trump’s decision Tuesday to fire FBI director James Comey; John Nichols calls for impeachment of AG Jeff Sessions. Available for select interviews.

A+ A- A

Comey’s Firing Is Worse Than the Saturday Night Massacre

At least during Watergate officials inside the administration refused to collude with Nixon’s orders.

Bruce Shapiro, a contributing editor to The Nation, is executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a global resource center and think tank for journalists covering violence, conflict and tragedy. Based in New York, NY.

Trump Fires Comey, Putting Country ‘On the Verge of a Constitutional Crisis’

The decision makes a mockery of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s recusal from the Russia investigation and should prompt his impeachment.
John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation, is the co-author, with Robert W. McChesney, of People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy. Based in Madison, WI.

ABOUT THE NATION
Founded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation has chronicled the breadth and depth of American political and cultural life from the debut of the telegraph to the rise of Twitter, serving as a critical, independent voice in American journalism and a platform for investigative reporting and spirited debate on issues of import to the progressive community. Through changing times and fashions, The Nation and TheNation.com offer consistently informed and inspired reporting and analysis of breaking news, politics, social issues and the arts-never faltering in our editorial commitment to what Nation Publisher Emeritus Victor Navasky has called « a dissenting, independent, trouble-making, idea-launching journal of critical opinion.