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The Watergate campaign finance scandals led to a landmark law designed to limit the influence of money in politics. Forty years later, some say the scandal isn't what's illegal, it's what's legal.

The remarkable true story of Donald Trump's family history--one of the most extraordinary immigration success stories ever told--and what it reveals about the United States' 45th president.

The centrist group No Labels is planning to host a bipartisan political convention in 2024 that may nominate a candidate to run for president. Such a candidate, the group believes, would offer a middle-of-the-road alternative to the Democratic candidate, likely President Joe Biden, who took office in 2021, and the Republican candidate, likely former president Donald Trump (R, 2017-21). Recent presidential elections in the United States have been extremely...

How Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell helped transform the Supreme Court and U.S. politics. Amid scrutiny of the high court, and a power struggle in the GOP, McConnell's rise and role pushing the judiciary to the right, and America's polarized democracy.

Arendt confronts the inadequancy of triditional moral "truths" as standards to judge what we are capable of doing, and she examines anew our ability to distinguish good from evil and right from wrong. Arendt comes to understand that alongside the radical evil she had addressed in earlier analyses of totalitarianism, there exist a more prenicious evil, independent of political ideology, whose execution is limitless when the prepetrator feels no remorse...

How can a president continue to govern with an impeachment trial looming? President Clinton and President Trump adopted very different strategies.

Bush was a pivotal player during a critical moment in world history. But despite soaring approval ratings following victory in the Persian Gulf, his years as president after the war were marked by almost unrelieved decline.

The dramatic controversy surrounding the 2000 presidential election led to sweeping voting reforms, but opened the door to a new set of problems that continue to affect elections today.

Tell-all moments in political debates are embedded in political folklore, from knockout one-liners to astonishing gaffes. High-stakes debates put candidates in the hot seat. But are they helpful to voters?