Toobin’s thesis is brashly revisionist; Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon has gone down in history as a great act of beneficence. According to conventional wisdom, by immunizing Nixon from ...

The president’s heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists has the hallmarks of an attempted crackdown 50 years ago.

The decision to oust David Huitema came two weeks after at least 17 inspectors general were removed from their roles.

This is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, and it lays the foundation for later inflation.

Properly understood, loyalty is neither a primary personal nor political virtue. And democratic loyalty requires attachment to the principles and procedures that are necessary to a government of, for ...

Take experience. In the past 50 years the two presidents who exceeded all others in that department were Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson. They’d each served in the military, in both houses of ...

The story of former President Richard Nixon vs. Arthur Burns, his Federal Reserve chair, is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fought it ...

A Republican presidential candidate hasn’t won Minnesota since Richard Nixon in 1972. The same was true for the U.S. Senate election, in which Sen. Tina Smith won Minnesota by five points ...

I believe we Americans just made an enormous mistake on ever so many important dimensions — self-interest, domestic ...

This year’s edition of the festival offers inventive visions, in fiction and nonfiction, of passionate lives amid difficult circumstances. With a style as daring as his narrative sense, Rob ...

Richard Roeper, a Sun-Times contributor since 1987 and a Chicago native, is the author of seven books and the former co-host of “Ebert & Roeper and the Movies.” He is the film critic for ABC-7 ...