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Critics of environmental protection laws may have forgotten how much progress has been made.
A nation’s history is told by its records. The White House no longer publishing Trump’s full remarks makes this history less complete.
Every democracy needs a national archive. Trump’s staffing shake-up is endangering an institution that preserves the nation’s history.
Laws governing how the records of Australia’s political past are kept need to be overhauled.
Cabinet Office papers expose Thatcher’s anxiety over the famous book, and the difference between governing in the 1980s and the modern information age.
This year’s release, from the cabinet records of 2002, is framed by two events of the previous year: the Tampa affair and 9/11.
A legal scholar analyzes the unsealed warrant for the FBI’s recent search of Donald Trump’s home and the list of materials seized there. The implications for Trump are potentially grave.
There’s a high bar for a federal judge to grant a search warrant, indicating there is probable cause that Trump committed a crime by holding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
A presidential scholar sets the history and context for the battle over President Trump’s official records – and says it isn’t the first records battle between the government and a former president.
Photos showing what appear to be torn-up documents in two different toilets may provide more evidence of the former president’s habit of destroying his presidential documents.
National archive documents raise questions about how definitive British efforts to prevent arms transfers to Iran really were after the revolution that toppled the Shah.
All presidents must deposit transcriptions of their public statements with the National Archives. But in the case of Donald Trump, there’s something missing.
Diaries, visitor logs, handwritten notes and speech drafts are among the records Donald Trump has tried to keep from a Congressional committee investigating the Capitol riot of Jan. 6.
Donald Trump’s lawsuit to stop the release to Congress of potentially embarrassing or incriminating documents puts the National Archives in the middle of an old legal conflict.
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Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of law and ethics, Georgia State University
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Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London
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Professor of Environmental Law, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Los Angeles
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Lecturer in Australian Political Studies, University of Canberra
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, Australian Catholic University
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University Archivist, RIT Libraries and Archives, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Associate Professor of History, UNSW
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Director of the Brechner Freedom of Information Project, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University