 With Mitt Romney the sole Republican voting to remove the president from office, the Senate fell well short of convicting Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment. What the senators said about their votes matters to history, but more important it will matter right now: Trump will hear what the Republicans said and know what he can get away with for the rest of his presidency, whether it's for a year or five years. Unfortunately, the several Republicans who claimed Trump didn't do what he was accused of doing were in effect choosing him over their own lying eyes. Read the whole thing. Iowa Might Have Botched One Caucus Too Many — Jonathan Bernstein Senate Republicans Are Ignoring Options Short of Removing Trump — Jonathan Bernstein Mexico's Lopez Obrador Is Stoking Corruption, Not Fighting It — Shannon O'Neil Trump Is Winning Like a Napoleonic General — John Authers The World's Most Expensive Railway Is In a Hole — Chris Bryant Why Google Might Prefer Dropping a $22 Billion Business — Alex Webb A Climate Change Lesson from Scotland's Little Ice Age — Tatiana Schlossberg What's Powering the U.S. Economy? It's a Mystery, Frankly — Noah Smith U.S. Could Actually Use More Nigerian Immigrants — Justin Fox Sunday at the Movies For those of you into spectacles of the non-sporting kind, this weekend is your Super Bowl. The 92nd Academy Awards (8 p.m. EST on ABC) will celebrate Hollywood's favorites in film and fashion. Raising a few glasses of Champagne with your fellow cinephiles? Here's your printable Oscar ballot. This is the Weekend Edition of Bloomberg Opinion Today, a roundup of the 10 most popular stories Bloomberg Opinion published this week based on web readership, plus some other stuff sometimes thrown in. | 
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