Richard Nixon

President Donald Trump, perhaps practicing pardoning himself should wrongdoing emerge from the investigation into his Russia dealings, isn't the first Oval Office occupant to exercise this sweeping power. With Hurricane Harvey bearing down on Texas, Trump on Friday night pardoned infamous...

The story is as old as journalism: the tension between a public servant’s urge to do the right thing while breaking the law, spilling secrets in the process and paying a price when it gets published. Reality Winner, a private defense contractor with security clearance, sits in jail today...

President Donald Trump has made America, for the first time since the Vietnam war, grate again — grating the nerves of the rest of the free world. The Pew Research Center published a study showing that the world’s view of the United States has plunged from 64 percent favorability to 49...

President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey might not be Watergate in Russian, according to one political science professor, but it could have the same effect on the public's view of government. Watergate — the scandal surrounding a break-in at Democratic National...

The historian hired to repair the Richard Nixon Library and Museum’s problems with the truth sees something similar in the current president: a sense of paranoia and frustration that might spill over into bad decisions. Timothy Naftali is a Canadian-American historian and a clinical associate...

Historian Allan J. Lichtman took serious heat from the Left for predicting Donald Trump would win the presidency. Now, he’s hearing it from the Right because he’s predicting Trump is hurtling toward impeachment. He counts the many ways in his latest book, “The Case For Impeachment...

It’s called “saber rattling,” a term used when a leader has problems at home and picks a fight abroad. Historians have examined the idea exhaustively, but there’s nothing like seeing it in real time. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Il Jung, both of whom...

Legal experts are having a field day debating whether President Donald Trump has plunged the United States into a “Constitutional crisis,” a loaded term but a somewhat elusive concept. To many people, explaining the concept might as well be embodied by paraphrasing the late Supreme...

President Donald Trump’s firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates late Monday shares some similarities with the actions of another president who tested executive powers — Richard Nixon. Yates was fired after directing her department not to defend Trump’s executive order on...

Over the years, Jay Z has become much more than a rapper, more than his career as a producer, entrepreneur or even investor. He has become a voice of public opinion, a spokesperson for the masses. Early Thursday, the New York Times published a video featuring Jay Z talking about America’s...