Jules Witcover has done it again. The veteran political reporter and columnist has produced insightful books on politics and history with metronomic regularity for more than three decades — he’s ...

If disgraced Richard Nixon Vice President Spiro Agnew was going to be featured prominently in the lead segment of a primetime cable news show in 2019, it would undoubtedly be Rachel Maddow‘s. And ...

The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew Veteran Washington reporter Jules Witcover's "Very Strange Bedfellows," about the promising and ultimately ignominious partnership of ...

On this day in 1973, the Vice-President of the United States resigned from office after pleading no contest to accepting bribes. Pretty big deal, right? But Spiro Agnew has been largely lost to ...

The news has been full of concerns about the fate of our republic following the indictment of former President Donald Trump. There have been questions about the politicization of criminal laws and the ...

How does a corrupt, high-ranking government official, who is under criminal investigation, maintain his grip on power? On TV, I saw Roger Stone describe the game plan: “Admit nothing, deny everything ...

(TIME, September 30) -- Once upon a time in the '60s, in the days when the culture wars began, there lived an obscure first-term Governor of Maryland--a sleek-looking silvery man who wore sharkskin ...

When Richard Nixon lifted the Governor of Maryland from a position of relative obscurity to the second spot on the Republican Party’s tick et last month, Spiro Theodore Agnew reacted with becoming ...

(TIME, August 16, 1968) -- As they start on the road to November, the Republicans are united. Now what will they do with the unity? Richard Nixon is clearly in tune with his party. Will he be in tune ...

There are countless presidential scandals in U.S. history, but very few of them have resulted in resignation or impeachment — which is precisely why MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was drawn to the story of ...