John Dean

From Jack the Ripper to Nixon and Watergate to Trump and Epstein, coverups have frequently roiled political history.

The parallel with Nixon leads to this question: Will voters still hold a president accountable for abuse of power?

After revealing the government’s lies about Vietnam, Ellsberg spent six decades as an anti-nuclear activist, getting arrested in civil-disobedience protests.

Watergate led to a landmark law designed to limit the influence of money in politics. Today, some say the scandal isn’t what’s illegal, it’s what’s legal.

Mired in a funding crisis — and the target of politicians — the hearings transformed public broadcasting.

Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

A new book about Watergate is the first to stress how much we still do not know many of the basic facts about the burglary at its center.

The 37th president used methods of media manipulation that Donald Trump can only fantasize about.

Experience the Watergate impeachment hearings and television broadcasts as so many did in 1973.

What President Richard Nixon’s Twitter account might have looked like during Watergate, had social media existed in the 1970s.

James Comey’s testimony joins the pantheon of dramatic congressional moments.

Who controls the Nixon Library? A dispute over how to tell his story raises questions about the purpose, and legitimacy, of presidential libraries.

Journalists' role in uncovering the scandal may not have been as significant as we think.