Watergate scandal

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.

Watergate led to a landmark law designed to limit the influence of money in politics. Today, some say the scandal isn’t what’s illegal, it’s what’s legal.

Herblock, Garry Trudeau, and others created memorable cartoons that skewered Nixon and Watergate, making the era a boom time for political satire.

Mired in a funding crisis — and the target of politicians — the hearings transformed public broadcasting.

Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

How one-third of “The Watergate Three” got written out of journalism history.

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.

Experience the Watergate impeachment hearings and television broadcasts as so many did in 1973.

Mark Felt wasn’t out to protect American democracy and the rule of law; he was out to get a promotion.

What President Richard Nixon’s Twitter account might have looked like during Watergate, had social media existed in the 1970s.

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?

A journalist who covered Nixon’s fall explains why the current scandal may be more of a national emergency.

Journalists' role in uncovering the scandal may not have been as significant as we think.

A new PBS documentary whitewashes the conservative founder of National Review.

What actually happened in one of the most disruptive episodes of the supposed Watergate scandal?

The Spiro Agnew Edition.

There's more to Gerald Ford, "the son of a bitch pardoned the son of a bitch,” than Watergate.

After revealing the government’s lies about Vietnam, Ellsberg spent six decades as an anti-nuclear activist, getting arrested in civil-disobedience protests.