Richard Nixon

Despite his controversial record, the former Secretary of State never fell out of the good graces of the D.C. establishment.

In his final years, the architect of America’s opening to China watched as Washington turned against his philosophy of engagement regardless of the costs.

The best words, mind you.

“Oh, man—he’s just smashing every one of your records.”

From the magazine’s archive: a selection of pieces about political misdeeds and corruption.

Long before Donald Trump arrived, there was reason to be skeptical of impeachment’s power.

In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?

The historian Rick Perlstein discusses President Gerald Ford’s motivation, whether liberals should care about the health of the Republican Party, and why the Trump siege may have been the culmination of the Barry Goldwater revolution.

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

The commuting of the prison sentence of an ally who kept his mouth shut during the Trump-Russia investigation is a consummate act of corruption and cronyism.

David Burnett, whose images from the Watergate hearings and Clinton impeachment have become iconic, will be on hand as the Senate decides the fate of Donald Trump.

A new angle on Nixon’s visit to China.

In 1974, the freshman Representative helped seal Nixon’s fate. In 1998, he was Defense Secretary during the Clinton impeachment. Now he explains how the Trump impeachment inquiry stacks up.

For Nixon stalwarts on the House Judiciary Committee, defending the President became an inalterable epitaph.

From The New Yorker’s archive: illuminating pieces on the Trump-Ukraine inquiry and the Nixon proceedings.

Thomas Mallon joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how public testimony helped bring down the Nixon Presidency and the challenges facing the Democrats in the House.

With public hearings on the impeachment of Donald Trump scheduled for next week, the chances of a similar coalition emerging this time appear slim.

Two writers analyze the precarious situation in Hong Kong, as the region protests against Beijing’s encroachments. And, from the archive, a report about Richard Nixon’s deliberations after Tiananmen Square.

Even compared to Richard Nixon at the end of his Presidency, Donald Trump brings us to a different level of crazy.

Beverly Gage, a professor of American history at Yale, discusses the ways in which Nixon tried to control the bureaucracy, parallels with the current scandal, and why impeachment is never a comprehensive response to bad Presidential behavior.