political scandal

Without the now-obscure land investment affair, Georgia might have been a "super state."

She ran from the car of a powerful congressman and dove into the Tidal Basin in 1974, generating a splash that would ripple into a political cause celebre.

Too bad Trump isn't a student of history.

Jenny Hendrix on the 'Naughty Nineties,' the decade in which America rediscovered sex.

Read this before you start printing tickets for an impeachment trial.

Some call it "Russiagate," others "Comeygate." What are we really saying when we apply the Nixonian suffix?

James Callender spread scurrilous rumors about Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Then he turned on Thomas Jefferson, too.

His story of coming out was so shrouded in scandal, so drenched in professional embarrassment, that its broader significance may forever be overshadowed.

Belknap’s downfall was his decision to abuse his authority to appoint “sutlers” or civilian merchants who ran trading posts that served military outposts.

The Spiro Agnew Edition.

The commander in chief's unexpected death in office 100 years ago fueled decades of conspiracy theories but was most likely the result of a heart attack.

A new account sheds light on the Ford administration’s war against Sen. Frank Church and his landmark effort to rein in a lawless intelligence community.

How Lincoln's administration financed the Civil War and transformed the nation's decentralized economy into the global juggernaut of the postwar centuries.

1796, the first contested presidential election.

In the 1950's, Rep. Douglas Stringfellow was a promising young congressman with an incredible World War II story. Then the truth came out.

Trump champions “law and order” while calling for the Constitution’s suspension. But there’s no tension between the two.

The historical insights of one era have been lost to the journalistic instincts of another.

The reasons that Nixon’s scandal endures when other presidents’ disgraces have not.

A new book about Watergate is the first to stress how much we still do not know many of the basic facts about the burglary at its center.

The documentary short “Catwoman vs. the White House” reconstructs an unexpected moment of activism during the Vietnam War.