When and if the former president’s demise comes, it will provide little sense of justice or gratification. And the worst parts of his legacy will simply pass into some other Republican’s hands.

It’s one of the oldest moves in the GOP’s campaign playbook: When in doubt, blow the racial dog whistle. But is it as effective as Democrats fear?

Colorful language, a president’s toady, and a standoff with the Justice Department: Echoes of the scandal that brought down Nixon could be heard throughout the January 6 committee’s Thursday hearing.

Trump clearly participated in a coup. It’s less clear that Nixon ordered the Watergate break-in 50 years ago. Let’s look at the evidence.

It’s been disgustingly co-opted by the likes of ExxonMobil. But it belongs to an environmental movement that fused both radical and mainstream America.

A nearly eight-hour gap in White House logs hearkens back to the Watergate scandal’s most pivotal moment.

The former president’s apologists are claiming that his recklessness would have been more effective in countering Putin’s aggression in Ukraine.

Biden was right, if impolite, about the Fox News correspondent. But idiotic questions have a venerable history.

Fifty years ago, in response to rising inflation, he rejected several long-standing practices. His Keynesian turn holds lessons for today’s economy.

These public-private partnerships skate by on their complexity and branding, but they undermine a future where housing is a right.

In order to end the fossil fuel era, the United States should join the organization American presidents love to hate.

Why it’s foolish to think the modern GOP will ever break with its lunatic fringe

The Capitol insurrection was born of a violent minoritarian tradition that is as American as apple pie—and it isn’t done yet.

What will Trump's presidential library look like?

What the bureau’s decades-long surveillance of the international celebrity reveals about the U.S. government’s Cold War pathologies

Sure, Donald Trump is harnessing Richard Nixon’s law and order rhetoric, but that doesn’t mean it will work.

The untold story of the ideological realignment that upended the nation

Sam Sloan is a college dropout, an ex-con, and a polygamist. He is also the last non-lawyer to win a case at the Supreme Court.

Richard Nixon tried to play on white fears about cities burning. It doesn’t necessarily guarantee success.

The soul of conservative America just might be found in a cartoon about a gang of vulgar little boys.