The shouting that surrounds you is an awful distraction. But that’s politics, as you know, and you can handle it. You might even like it, if you could admit that. It might be kind of nice, in fact, as ...

Martin E. Marty, an ordained Lutheran pastor, seminary professor and highly influential voice on religion, has died.

Even during the height of the Watergate scandal, President Richard Nixon didn’t kick the Washington Post out of the pool.” ...

Even during the height of the Watergate scandal, President Richard Nixon didn’t kick the Washington Post out of the pool.” ...

Yoon and Nixon share key similarities, but their fates may diverge significantly.

The judicial system has started to rule against the administration’s decimation of the civil service. If only it could ...

America was founded on the principle that laws, not kings, reign supreme. Trump's blunt rejection of that principle is ...

Reading Jeffrey Toobin's "The Pardon," which focuses on Gerald Ford's decision to pardon Richard Nixon, the urge to contrast ...

This morning, Trump condemned Zelensky as a “dictator” and wildly exaggerated U.S. contributions to Ukraine’s self-defense by ...

I do hereby grant unconditional pardons to all United States persons for those offenses against the United States which such persons may have ...

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Toobin couches his exploration of Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon within both the broader context of mounting presidential hegemony ...