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Joe Biden Faces Richard Nixon's Choice Jul. 08, 2024
Joe Biden has come to the same dead end Richard Nixon arrived at half a century ago. His presidency ... Read More
Watergate Comes Alive in Small North Carolina Town Apr. 30, 2023
By Carl H. Larsen It could be the most famous gavel in American political history. Drawing the atten... Read More
When Kennedy and Nixon Nominees Agreed Nov. 30, 2022
Justice Byron White, who wrote some of the most important conservative Supreme Court opinions in the... Read More
Once Upon a Time, America Then and Now: Reflections 1972-2022 Sep. 21, 2022
WASHINGTON — Three landmarks in time just took place. The Watergate break-in that led to a pr... Read More
Special Privileges: The Judge Granting Trump a Special Master Handed Him a Special Deal Sep. 13, 2022
Former President Donald Trump's lawsuit demanding that the Justice Department's investigation into h... Read More
Damned Either Way: Merrick Garland Weighs the Mother of All Indictments Aug. 02, 2022
In October 1974, President Gerald Ford appeared before Congress to provide his rationale for pardoni... Read More
Sharing a Cell in History Hell: Trump and Nixon Jun. 08, 2022
WASHINGTON — Former Presidents Donald Trump and Richard Nixon share a cell in presidential his... Read More
The Corporate Conspiracy on The Court Jun. 08, 2022
Usurping the fundamental rights of women to control their own bodies. Authorizing corporate giants t... Read More
The Richard Nixon His Loyalists Knew Feb. 15, 2022
Whenever America is polarized, as it is today, people go back in memory and history to recall other ... Read More
Why Couldn't He Just Pick a Black Woman? Feb. 03, 2022
Why couldn't President Joe Biden have announced that he was going to pick the most qualified person ... Read More
Putting a Black Woman on the Supreme Court Is Overdue Feb. 02, 2022
Black women have been absent from the U.S. Supreme Court for the past 233 years, and some people are... Read More
Trump's 'Executive Privilege' Is Another Big Lie Nov. 04, 2021
When Donald Trump was president he informed us, with his usual combination of ignorance and belliger... Read More
History Matters and So Does Political Reality Sep. 04, 2021
Here we go again! In the aftermath of the mismanaged U.S. military pullout in Afghanistan, calls to ... Read More
Trump's Secrecy Demonstrates Need for Presidential Tax Disclosure Requirement Mar. 01, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court has finally done what political norms and plain old shame have, for years, be... Read More
Can the President Pardon Himself? Dec. 10, 2020
Most presidential pardons — indeed all pardons that President Donald Trump has issued — ... Read More
Law and Order Jul. 25, 2020
It was the title of a speech by then-Gov. (and later President) Calvin Coolidge in 1919. He was talk... Read More
Republicans Are Ready to Party Like It's 1972 Feb. 27, 2020
After Richard Nixon's landslide 1972 victory over Democratic opponent George McGovern, New Yorker fi... Read More
Good and Bad Reasons for Acquitting Trump: Republicans Should Think Twice Before Endorsing the Dangerous Myth That Impeachment Requires a Criminal Violation Feb. 05, 2020
Marco Rubio's widely mocked justification for acquitting Donald Trump, which conspicuously avoided c... Read More
Impeachment Plays Again Onstage ... as Tragedy or Farce? Nov. 13, 2019
The week in Washington began quietly, but you can feel the rustle of a gathering storm as the public... Read More
50 Years Ago: The Day Nixon Routed the Establishment Nov. 01, 2019
What are the roots of our present disorder, of the hostilities and hatreds that so divide us? When d... Read More
