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Weissmann referenced the so-called “ Saturday Night Massacre ” of October 1973, when then-President Richard Nixon fired ...

In 2019, we represented an anonymous whistle-blower from the American intelligence community whose disclosures about ...

Former Republican consultant Stuart Stevens — who has written a pair of books on how his former party has become the cult of ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Jan. 29 The Washington Post on Trump's OMB pick The White House memo announcing a federal spending freeze, rescinded Wednesday ...

Half a century ago Congress, the courts, other key institutions within and outside of the government, and the American public ...

Administration officials are chasing soundbites — not sustainable changes — and leaving real harm in their wake.

The Watergate Cake, or at least its predecessor, hails from the 1950s and 60s, a time when bright pale green foods were all ...

If Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney, agrees to drop the prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams, the decision could ...

For boomers, the rapid reversal of 1960s-era gains for civil rights, women, LGBTQ, etc., has unraveled the story of our ...

One of the president’s most controversial Cabinet nominees wants to shuffle the deck on core American principles, such as checks and balances.