Richard Nixon

On Spiro Agnew's lasting legacy.

Richard Nixon decided a powerful new medium should appeal to the marketplace, not to citizens.

How the law became a staging ground for unrestrained war.

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

The conservative backlash to the civil-rights era began immediately — and now it’s nearly complete.

Survivors of Kissinger's secret war in Cambodia reveal unreported mass killings.

We now know a great deal about the crimes he committed while in office. But we know little about his four decades with Kissinger Associates.

The Nixon White House Tapes tell a different story.

Mr. Shakespeare's team oversaw ads and on-air events that reflected the rising power of television as a political tool.

The F.B.I. director promised to save American democracy from those who would subvert it—while his secret programs subverted it from within.

The Christian, the athlete, and the activist.

The Pentagon's official history says that a heavy bombardment by B-52s in 1972 pushed the North Vietnamese to return to negotiated peace. What are the facts?

To understand today’s political battles, you need to know how they began.

The modern Republican Party has always exploited and encouraged extremism.

When Susan Struck fought being discharged for pregnancy from the US Air Force, it brought the right to choose into a different light.

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

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

Fifty years ago, first lady Pat Nixon admired a tin of Chinese cigarettes. Then China sent the U.S. a pair of giant pandas.

No matter the outcome of West Virginia v. EPA, the agency can take action to engage the public and make its data more accessible.

An alliance between Jewish activists and congressional neocons made Soviet Jewry a key issue in superpower relations—and reshaped American Jewish politics.