A former council to a Watergate special prosecutor tellsThe Guardian that President Donald Trump's weaponization of the Justice Department to punish his political enemies is "the worst type of corruption of the rule of law.

Amidst all the seriousness of political films, “Wag the Dog” brings a bit of black comedy. The movie with a stellar cast (Dustin Hoffman, Robert de Niro, Anne Heche) narrates how the president of the United States is caught making advances towards a minor less than two weeks before the elections.

“One of the dangers of Cheney’s theory of the presidency was that someone who didn’t care about the Constitutional balance of power would take advantage of those powers,” says Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs

You’ve heard of the boy who cried “wolf”? Over the past decade or so, Republicans have become the party that cried “Watergate.”

In a sense, its old news. In December 2021, CNN reported that the Houses select January 6 Committee had subpoenaed phone records of more than 100 people. But that was mostly Trump officials, including White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

A funny thing happened on the way to ranking the four big presidential scandals of our time: Former Nixon staffers in O.C. said Watergate wasn’t Nixon’s scandal after all, and he was actually the first victim of “lawfare,” and that our ...

CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein says the GOP’s reaction to Donald Trump‘s summit with Vladimir Putin will define his presidency the same way Watergate defined Richard Nixon. Bernstein was on New Day today to talk about the chances of Trump ...

A vast Biden administration investigation to find anything that could be used against President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters was denounced Wednesday by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa.