News of the Nation

The Year in Review

The year began with rumblings of a presidential sex scandal and ended with the impeachment of the president. Congress consumed itself in vituperative partisanship, while America's foreign policy turned tough, abandoning talk for military strikes against three terrorist states.

• High Crimes or Misdemeanors?
• Congress: Lewinsky or Legislation?
• The Iraqi Albatross
• Playing Hardball with Terrorism