Trump’s indictment will force Americans to grapple with the exact role of presidents – and limits of their power.
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A media scholar who studied Carter and interviewed him explains how he attempted to translate Jesus’ teachings into action through his life of public service.
The House GOP is scrutinizing federal investigators for alleged abuses of power. But will they probe abuses that may have been committed by members of their own party?
Special counsels can help administrations avoid the perception of bias, but politics is never fully out of the picture.
The House Jan. 6 committee’s final report is the latest in a long series of congressional studies that have tried to answer hard questions about government failures and suggest ways to avoid them.
Special counsels are not entirely independent, but they do still help administrations avoid the perception of bias.
A lot of facts have come forward through the efforts of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol. What will its efforts mean to the US?
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.
Congress has the power to make sure government serves the public interest. Conducting investigations is one way lawmakers do that.
Coverage of the House Jan. 6 hearings focuses on what went wrong that led up to Trump supporters’ laying siege to the US Capitol. A government scholar looks at what went right, both then and now.
Today’s media landscape is a far cry from the days of Watergate. A media scholar looks at the challenge the Jan. 6 committee faces in getting the hearings to break through in the age of TikTok.
Is it time to stop labelling scandals according to a Washington break-in 50 years ago?
Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward broke stories about the Watergate scandal that helped unravel Richard Nixon’s presidency. But they were not the sole force to bring him down.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol held its first hearing to present what it has learned during its almost year-long probe. Three scholars analyze the event.
The public hearings of the House Jan. 6 investigative committee will deal with unprecedented events in American history, but the very investigation of these events has strong precedent.
Many of the coinages fail to differentiate the mundane from the momentous. Has the suffix’s overuse rendered it essentially meaningless?
The Republican Party has a decadeslong relationship with using distrust to incite its base and draw in more supporters – the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks just offer the latest example of this tactic.
Criminal charges against former President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot could spark political consequences – not only for Trump, but for US democracy.
Donald Trump asked his former presidential aides not to testify before a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection – testing the limits of congressional oversight.
The posturing is bound to continue. But at the age of 78 Jacob Zuma’s long day in the sun is over.
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Research Specialist, the Miller Center, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Westminster College
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Assistant Professor of Government, Smith College
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Professor of History, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Auburn University
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Associate Professor of Journalism, Marist College
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Professor of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University - Newark
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Assistant professor of government, American University School of Public Affairs
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Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division, Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley
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Provost Associate Professor, American University School of International Service
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The E. William Davis Jr, M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University