The Latest Breaking News from Richard Nixon

The documents in the Pentagon Papers told how U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was built up steadily by political leaders and top military brass who were overconfident about U.S. prospects.

Daniel Ellsberg, who copied and leaked documents that revealed secret details of U.S. strategy in the Vietnam War and became known as the Pentagon Papers, has announced he has terminal cancer and months to live

Nixon, like DeSantis, had great resentment toward the so-called elites and it colored his worldview in toxic ways

Ex-president became so incensed with late-night host’s jabs that two calls were made in 2018 to top executives at network owner

As 2024's campaign season begins, politicians are looking in the mirror and deciding whether they see an American president staring back

It could get much worse (and more dangerous) in Washington in the months to come

This year's Oscar-nominated short documentaries are remarkably varied, revisiting our recent political history, examining the roots of terrorism at home and sharing snapshots of a young person's development. Even the two nature-based entries wildly differ in approach and tone.

One of Washington’s quadrennial parlor games is well under way: Will the president (Joe Biden) bolster his re-election prospects by dumping his vice president (Kamala Harris)?

The paper pushes modest reforms while endorsing continued criminalization.

As a drama about the Yom Kippur war, this film is bafflingly dull. As a portrait of Golda Meir, Israel’s prime minister at the time, it’s even worse

Every American president has landed in the history books. And historians’ assessments of their performance have been generally consistent over time. But some presidents’ rankings have changed as the nation – and historians themselves – reassessed the country’s values and priorities.