Half a century ago Congress, the courts, other key institutions within and outside of the government, and the American public ...

As the White House ignores congressional mandates, the conflict raises questions at the heart of the nation’s founding ...

Every family gathering in the 1970s seemed to feature this mysteriously green, impossibly fluffy creation. My grandmother's ...

Once back in office, Trump wasted no time testing that vision. He issued multiple Day One executive orders freezing funds to ...

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And it’s easy enough to see why it sold a gazillion copies when it was published in June 1974 as the Watergate scandal headed toward its frenzied conclusion. (I’m aware that Woodward/Bernstein don’t ...

Former President Jimmy Carter has won a posthumous Grammy award. Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake ...

Mr Trump is up to something new. He not only wants to punish critics and officials, down to the lowliest bureaucrats, who do ...

Weissmann referenced the so-called “ Saturday Night Massacre ” of October 1973, when then-President Richard Nixon fired ...

Created among the post-Watergate government reforms aimed at increasing oversight and decreasing corruption and ...

A new memo warning Justice Department attorneys against refusing to advance legal arguments they disagree with is ...

This is a power grab, sanctioned by Trump, and we all should recognize it as such and do everything in our power to expose it ...