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Former attorney general John N. Mitchell appears before the Senate Watergate Committee in Washington, D.C., on July 11, 1973.
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Primetime Watergate Hearings Helped Make PBS a National Network

Mired in a funding crisis — and the target of politicians — the hearings transformed public broadcasting.
by Amanda Reichenbach Lehman via Made By History on June 16, 2022
A line of cars waiting their turn at a filling station in Portland, Oregon, 1973.

The Price of Oil

The history of control and decontrol in the oil market.
by Gregory Brew via Phenomenal World on May 25, 2022
A promotional pamphlet for Soul City, 1969.

Black Capitalism in One City

Soul City was a boondoggle—not a story of lost or forgotten roads tragically not taken.
by Adolph Reed Jr. via Dissent on May 25, 2022
Richard Nixon giving a press briefing.
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Presidents v. Press: How the Pentagon Papers Leak Set Up First Amendment Showdowns

Efforts to clamp down on White House leaks to the press follow a pattern that was set during the Nixon era after the publication of the Pentagon Papers.
via Retro Report on February 2, 2022
Pile of US paper currency.

Austerity Policies In The United States Caused ‘Stagflation’ In The 1970s

U.S. government policies must continue to support physical and social infrastructure spending amid the continuing pandemic to avoid ‘stagflation’.
by Andrew Yamakawa Elrod via Washington Center For Equitable Growth on January 11, 2022
Title card for The Class Room, and drawing of a woman holding a child.

How America Got (And Lost) Universal Child Care

The U.S. managed to pay for a child care program during the most expensive war ever. What happened?
by More Perfect Union via YouTube on November 7, 2021
Newark protesters and National Guard

A Warning Ignored

America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.
by Jelani Cobb via New York Review of Books on July 29, 2021
Volunteer registered nurses from New Mexico give people coronavirus vaccines at a rural vaccination site in Columbus, N.M.
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Volunteering and Generosity Are No Substitutes for Government Programs

Conservatives have weaponized Americans’ desire to help to attack the social safety net.
by Katherine Turk via Made By History on April 19, 2021
A highway sign on Route 1 points the way to Soul City.

The Lost Plan for a Black Utopian Town

Soul City in North Carolina was designed to build Black wealth and address racial injustice. Then its opponents lined up.
by Divya Subramanian via The New Republic on March 17, 2021
George Schultz walking with Ronald Reagan outdoors
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George Shultz: The Last Progressive

A steadfast Republican committed to union-management cooperation, peace through treaties, competitive capitalism, and empowerment of African-Americans.
by Ron Schatz via HNN on February 28, 2021
Three panels of a graphic depicting Soul city. Images include two people walking in a street, people playing golf, and the inside of a mall

The Plan to Build a Capital for Black Capitalism

In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?
by Kelefa Sanneh via The New Yorker on February 1, 2021

44 Years Ago Today, Chilean Socialist Orlando Letelier Was Assassinated on US Soil

On September 21, 1976, he was assassinated by a car bomb in the heart of Washington, DC.
by Alan McPherson via Jacobin on September 21, 2020
Salvador Allende during his inaugural parade, November 3, 1970 (photo credit: Naul Ojeda)

“Allende Wins”

Chile voted calmly to have a Marxist-Leninist state, the first nation in the world to make this choice freely and knowingly, on September 4, 1970.
by Peter Kornbluh via National Security Archive on September 3, 2020
President Richard Nixon, HUD Secretary George Romney, and Washington Mayor Walter stand near a pile of rubble

How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America

Even housing policies that sought to create more Black homeowners were stymied by racism and a determination to shrink the government’s presence.
by Marcia Chatelain via The Nation on August 25, 2020

An Embattled President. A Mass Movement. A Military Used Against Citizens. We’ve Been Here Before.

The inside story of Mayday 1971 and the largest mass arrest in US history.
by Lawrence Roberts via Mother Jones on July 29, 2020
New York workers, angered by the Mayor's apparent anti-Vietnam-War sympathies, wave American flags as they march in a demonstration near City Hall in New York City on May 15, 1970.

The 'Hard Hat Riot' of 1970 Pitted Construction Workers Against Anti-War Protesters

The Kent State shootings further widened the chasm among a citizenry divided over the Vietnam War.
by Angela Serratore via Smithsonian on May 8, 2020

‘Tin Soldiers and Nixon’s Coming’

The shootings at Kent State and Jackson State at 50 years later.
by Robert Cohen, Michael Koncewicz via The Nation on May 4, 2020
Three men in suits.

The GOP Appointees Who Defied the President

In the Watergate era, high-level aides prevented Nixon’s abuses of power. Trump’s underlings can do the same.
by Michael Koncewicz via The Atlantic on November 19, 2019
Close-up of Spiro T. Agnew as he points his finger from podium.

He Was Trump Before Trump: VP Spiro Agnew Attacked the News Media 50 Years Ago

When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.
by Thomas Alan Schwartz via The Conversation on November 8, 2019

The Difference Between Nixon and Trump is Fox News

Fox News shields President Trump, but his love for their conspiracies might bring him down.
by Nicole Hemmer via Vox on October 7, 2019

When Conservatives Tried to Throw Out Richard Nixon

Well before Watergate broke, John Ashbrook waged a primary campaign that the Right took very seriously.
by Daniel Bring via The American Conservative on September 27, 2019

How the Republican Majority Emerged

Fifty years after the Republican Party hit upon a winning formula, President Trump is putting it at risk.
by Kevin M. Kruse, Dov Weinryb Grohsgal via The Atlantic on August 6, 2019

How a Historian Uncovered Ronald Reagan’s Racist Remarks to Richard Nixon

In a taped call with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan described the African delegates to the United Nations in luridly racist terms.
by Timothy Naftali, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on August 2, 2019

Congressional Action on Yemen May Be the First Salvo Against Presidential War Powers

President Trump’s skirting around Congress to sell arms to Saudi Arabia is only the latest example of presidential overreach.
by R. Joseph Parrott via The Conversation on May 29, 2019

When Pat Buchanan Brought Johnny Cash to the Nixon White House

It didn't go exactly as planned. But for TAC's founder, this is where his populist antiwar movement may have begun.
by Jack Hunter via The American Conservative on May 24, 2019

The Dawn of Big Government and the Administrative State

A new book correctly diagnoses how non-elected agencies are running the country, but falls short on how it got this way.
by Paul Gottfried via The American Conservative on March 13, 2019

An Inquiry Into Abuse

Allegations that Nixon beat his wife have circulated for years without serious examination by those who covered his presidency.
by Elon Green via Longreads on August 23, 2018
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'Gavel-to-Gavel': The Watergate Scandal and Public Television

Experience the Watergate impeachment hearings and television broadcasts as so many did in 1973.
by Amanda Reichenbach via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on November 3, 2017
Billy Graham at a speaker's podium (Photo by Ninian Reid).

The Preacher and Vietnam: When Billy Graham Urged Nixon to Kill One Million People

The disclosure of Billy Graham's recommendation of war crimes did not exicte any commotion.
by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair via CounterPunch on September 27, 2017
Cartoon silhouettes of elongated business people in suits

Business as Usual: The Long History of Corporate Personhood

The mass defection of CEOs of some of the nation’s most powerful corporations from President Trump’s now-defunct Manufacturing Jobs Initiative.
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Boston Review on August 23, 2017
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