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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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter has won a posthumous Grammy award.

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abroad: ___ Jan. 29 The Washington Post on Trump's OMB pick The White House memo announcing a federal spending freeze, rescinded Wednesday ...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 ...

His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...

Richard Fontaine is the chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He served as president of CNAS from 2012–19 and as senior fellow from 2009–12. Prior to CNAS, he was ...