In newly released grand jury testimony, Nixon leaned on familiar national security tropes

Richard Nixon is perhaps the best-known outed liar in history. In 1975, the year after he resigned in disgrace and was lifted away from the White House in a helicopter, the ex-president gave testimony before a grand jury investigating his administration. University of Wisconsin professor Stanley Kutler recently persuaded a More…

Video: Why WaPo’s Takedown of Nixon Is a Media-Driven Myth

When most people hear Watergate, after Nixon, the first two names that come to mind are Woodward and Bernstein. The two Washington Post reporters are largely credited with breaking the scandal and taking down Richard Nixon’s presidency. But W. Joseph Campbell, author of the new book “Getting It Wrong: Ten More…

The Last Time Massachusetts Elected a Republican Senator?

The last Republican to hold a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts was Edward W. Brooke, who lost to Democrat Paul E. Tsongas in the 1978 election. Brooke was the first African-American senator to be elected since Reconstruction, winning in 1966 over Democrat Endicott Peabody. He received the Congressional Gold More…

So That’s Why Palin Believes in the Ingathering of the Jews

Last week, Sarah Palin made a strange comment defending Israeli settlement construction by warning that “more and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead.” Since worldwide Jewry is unaware of such an imminent threat that would prompt mass immigration to Israel More…

Give Holder Some Time on Torture Prosecutions

Daphne Eviatar is guest-blogging for Glenn Greenwald today. The following is cross-posted at Salon.

Ever since The Los Angeles Times reported last weekend that Attorney General Eric Holder is inching closer to investigating detainee torture that occurred during the “war on terror”, the debate over whether More…