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The Trump Administration Is Trying to Erase Its Own History

David A. Graham

April 8, 2026

Donald Trump holding a document with his signature

Why Trump Gets Away With It

November 15, 2025

A black-and-white photo of two people reading newspapers that read “Nixon Resigning” outside of the White House gates

Washington Week With The Atlantic

How the American Political Landscape Changed

August 30, 2025

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic

The Trump Presidency’s World-Historical Heist

May 28, 2025

An illustration of Donald Trump walking past giant piles of coins

The Journalist Who Cried Treason

October 2, 2024

A man wearing a black shirt and jeans leans against a wood post.

Sorry, Richard Nixon

August 9, 2024

Richard Nixon on TV overlaid with photo of the U.S. Capitol

When a Hapless Villain Somehow Takes Down a Presidency

May 18, 2023

Justin Theroux and Woody Harrelson, in character on HBO’s ‘White House Plumbers’

The Watergate Celebration We’ve Been Waiting For

Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic

September 6, 2022

A collage on a blue background, showing text from a pistachio Jell-O packet and a book about Watergate, as well as photos of a pie covered in cherries, a TV showing Watergate-hearing footage, and a man holding a plate of cottage cheese

Why ‘The Watergate Three’ Are Remembered as a Duo

June 9, 2022

A scribbled out portrait of Sussman

January 6 Is a Dangerous Shorthand

June 8, 2022

Collage of January 6 insurrectionists and Richard Nixon.

How My Grandfather Helped Bring Down the Nixon Presidency

Katrina Northrop

November 10, 2019

John Northrop with a copy of the White House tape transcript of President Nixon's Watergate conversations.

Why They Blow the Whistle

October 2, 2019

Mark Felt, a.k.a. "Deep Throat"

House Democrats Are Ignoring This Key Lesson of Watergate

Jonathan C. Rose

September 23, 2019

Deep Throat: An Institutional Analysis

A black-and-white photograph of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward at the Washington Post offices