Out of Control

by Julian E. Zelizer

Nixon’s excesses prompted Congress to reassert its own powers, but those changes eroded over time. Now, Trump is demonstrating anew all the dangers of unchecked executive authority.

Donald Trump’s Watergate?

by William McGurn

Robert Bork’s lessons from the Saturday Night Massacre take on new relevance.

A ‘Saturday Night Massacre’ Veteran Offers Trump Some Advice

by William D. Ruckelshaus

Mr. President, don’t worry whether you have the power to pardon yourself. But do consider the wisdom of firing the man charged by your own deputy attorney general with investigating Russian intervention into your election.

Flashback to F.B.I. Chief’s ’93 Firing, and to Saturday Night Massacre

It doesn’t happen often, but for the second time in the F.B.I.’s 109-year-history, its director has been fired.

Is This Donald Trump’s Saturday Night Massacre?

A Nixon biographer on two big differences between 1973 and 2017.