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The 50th anniversary of the Watergate arrests is approaching: The first break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters was on May 28, 1972, but the botched return on June 17 produced arrests and eventually brought Richard Nixon’s presidency to a premature end on Aug. 8, 1974. The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan…

On June 17, 1972, Washington, D.C., police arrested five men for breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Although the administration’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler, dismissed the crime as a “third-rate burglary,” its scope would grow to consume Richard Nixon’s presidency and then bring it to an end…

Twenty years after “The Wire” saw David Simon’s gritty writing transposed to the screen, Yena Lee tells us why “We Own The City” provides a complex and compelling sequel to the crime drama. We discuss “Gaslit”, a new adaptation of the Watergate scandal, which sees Julia Roberts and Sean Penn…

Behind every great political scandal, there are players whose stories get shoved to the side by the first, second and even third drafts of history.

Fifty years ago, the national networks CBS, ABC and NBC dominated television screens in America and were the primary way voters obtained information: Each network, along with newspapers and radio, told its audience facts first, and all agreed on what the facts were. That meant Americans had a shared understanding…

The events of the infamous Watergale scandal took place during and after the 1972 US presidential election

Julia Roberts is fantastic as ‘mouth of the south’ Martha Mitchell in this prestige bit of TV – and she knows it

Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Dan Stevens, Betty Gilpin and more star in this political thriller that lacks cohesion

The programme follows the lesser-known characters caught up in the Watergate scandal