political scandal

Presidents who take on the Bureau rarely win.

Fifty years ago, the January 1968 battle laid bare the way U.S. leaders had misled the public about the war in Vietnam.

Ryan Zinke isn’t the first Interior secretary to attract controversy.

If he does, it will be a sign of just how repugnant his actions are.

Feminists saved the 42nd president of the United States in the 1990s. They were on the wrong side of history.

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

Mueller and his team are facing a president who seems willing to take down the entire democratic apparatus to save his own skin.

Embracing the swamp won't sink Trump immediately. But it will sink him eventually.

It’s our democracy’s ultimate weapon for self-defense. But does intense political opposition justify its use?

Anthony Scaramucci's resignation after 10 days broke a record held by Ronald Reagan’s communications director.

It took well over a century for the office of the attorney general to accrue power and independence. Trump could blow that all up.

The investigation brought indictments and convictions — but Reagan weathered the storm.

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

Decades before Watergate, mobsters helped turn hearings into must-see television.

James Comey’s testimony joins the pantheon of dramatic congressional moments.

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

Get riled up again about Trump's refusal to release his returns with a brief history of this now-discarded presidential tradition.

On the 30th anniversary, we can see that it was an ideological project, with the New Right reasserting the righteousness of militarism and markets.

The outrage and press coverage was nothing compared with that surrounding Hillary Clinton's emails.

An 1848 investigative news story that relied on heavy data analysis snared big fish, including two future presidents.