MoviesIn ’Mark Felt,’ a ghost from America’s political past echoes in the presentLiam Neeson takes on the role of Deep Throat—a heroic but complex, hard-to-read crusader—in ’Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House’
WashingtonWhat if Donald Trump tries to pardon himself?The constitutionality of self-pardons is an open question. Here’s how it might play out.
WashingtonDonald Trump’s Watergate momentForty-three years after Nixon resigned, Allen Abel goes to Capitol Hill to ask lawmakers: ’Are we there yet?’
WashingtonTrump vs Nixon: A look at how the two presidents compareWe rated the parallels to date between the Russia-gate and Watergate scandals. The similarities are striking.
WashingtonWhy Donald Trump is like Richard Nixon all over againAuthor John A. Farrell discusses a president prone to paranoia, and stoking up angry, white voters. He also mentions Donald Trump.
WorldSpy vs. Why: Donald Trump’s odd war on U.S. intelligenceOn the brink of a new Cold War, Trump’s battle with U.S. intelligence services is ’unprecedented’ and dangerous, say former spies
WashingtonWhat will Donald Trump do for the ’lock her up’ crowd?Demands to jail Hillary Clinton rang loudly and unchallenged through Trump’s campaign rallies. Now that he’s president-elect, will he carry it out?
OttawaThat time Richard Nixon predicted Justin Trudeau would be PMThe last time a Trudeau and a U.S. president met for a state dinner, it didn’t go that well—but Nixon did foresee Justin Trudeau becoming prime minister
BooksNixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide’The first full account’ of America’s role in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh