How Trump is stretching laws to make the federal government more political
The White House is exploiting, and sometimes outright ignoring, the arcane laws, rules and regulations that have long ...
Why government needs independent inspectors general
By keeping an eye out for waste and fraud, they make efficiency possible.
Trump uses mass firing to remove independent inspectors general at a series of agencies
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has fired about 17 independent inspectors general at government agencies, a sweeping ...
Trump plans an audacious grab for congressional ‘power of the purse’
As a presidential candidate last year, Donald Trump declared that if California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) did not divert more of ...
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Watergate - The Scandal that Took down the President
Between 1972 and late 1973, there was a series of mysterious meetings in an underground car park near Washington D.C. between Washington Post journalist Robert ‘Bob’ Woodward and a mysterious ...
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Jimmy Carter’s fraught relationship with Washington — and what it teaches us
He came here in 1977 to the heal the country after Watergate ... by courting a few of Washington’s elites, especially Katharine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post and the ultimate social ...
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Jimmy Carter lies in state as Washington begins its commemoration
A farmer who rose to be Georgia governor, Carter arrived in Washington to heal America after the corrosive years of the Watergate scandal. Yet he was beset by intractable troubles of his own ...
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Washington Post has descended into a dark abyss — here’s why
The Washington Post used to be one of the best gigs in ... think Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and their dogged pursuit of Watergate — set the gold standard for reporting.