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John McCain Is Sick and Tired of His Outrage!

Lester & Charlie | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics
Lester & Charlie

Not since New Coke have we as a nation seen a disaster that both sides of the aisle can agree on. America is now unanimously and officially outraged that the IRS would have the audacity to target political groups -- groups that publicly despise taxes and call for the end of the IRS.

Famed Watergate Reporter Savages Obama On AP Probe

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.14.2013 | Media

The Obama administration woke up on Tuesday to another morning of scorching criticism about the Justice Department's decision to secretly obtain month...

BEHOLD: Which Journalists Are Giving Commencement Speeches This Year

Posted 04.15.2013 | Media

Over the next month, college graduates will lend their ears to a solid roster of journalists who will dole out words of wisdom in commencement address...

Watergate's Lessons, Washed Away

Michael Winship | Posted 05.31.2013 | Politics
Michael Winship

Combined with the ongoing tragedy of Vietnam -- including the secret bombing of Cambodia and the violent squelching of antiwar protest -- Watergate shook the public's confidence in government as it hadn't been since the bleakest days of secession and the Civil War.

The Holy Trinity of Technology

Thomas A. Bass | Posted 03.30.2013 | Technology
Thomas A. Bass

As always with our technology, and especially the technology that trickles down from the military to civilians, we have to wonder if certain inventions are being used to advance life or death.

Bernstein Dismayed By Reaction To Ailes-Petraeus Story

Posted 12.21.2012 | Media

Carl Bernstein issued a scathing critique of the media on Thursday, blasting its response to Bob Woodward's report that Roger Ailes tried to get David...

'All Artists Are Activists'

The Huffington Post | Katherine Brooks | Posted 12.11.2012 | Arts

This week, the Public Theater in New York played host to an impressive group of artists and writers including Salman Rushdie and Carl Bernstein. "Thou...

George McGovern's Last Hurrah

Al Eisele | Posted 12.22.2012 | Politics
Al Eisele

Thirty-five years after losing a landslide election to Richard Nixon and winning only one state -- Massachusetts -- that branded him as one of the biggest losers in American politics, George McGovern has claimed his place in history as one of its biggest winners.

The Legacy Of Ben Bradlee.. The Irritation Of Bob Woodward.. The Fabulousness Of Barbara Carroll

Liz Smith | Posted 11.13.2012 | Celebrity
Liz Smith

In "Yours in Truth," we get Ben Bradlee in all his charismatic in-charge sex appeal and dynamism, we get Katherine Graham and she gives total good value as an amateur who rose to the occasion, we get Carl Bernstein who could write and report in a manner his partner Bob Woodward couldn't.

Carl Bernstein Spoke At Event Supporting Controversial Iranian Group

ProPublica | Justin Elliott | Posted 08.31.2012 | Media

Watergate Journalist Carl Bernstein Spoke at Event Supporting Iranian ‘Terrorist' Group by Justin Elliott ProPublica, Aug. 31, 2012, 12:58 p.m....

Lessons From Nora

Michele Weldon | Posted 08.28.2012 | Women
Michele Weldon

Her risky writing liberated me, made me feel that it was alright not to aspire to be a war correspondent, but to dream of artfully capturing the life in front of me.

How Nora Ephron's 'Heartburn' Changed The Conversation About Divorce

The Huffington Post | Natasha Burton | Posted 06.28.2012 | Divorce

Nora Ephron’s novel “Heartburn,” a roman à clef loosely based on her discovery of husband Carl Bernstein's affair and its aftermath, was publis...

Korach And The Abuse Of Power

Rabbi Edward Bernstein | Posted 08.26.2012 | Religion
Rabbi Edward Bernstein

In Parashat Korach, we learn about anshei shem, men of renown, who abuse their power to the detriment of the community. We saw a similar phenomenon 40 years ago in Watergate, and we see it today in our broken election financing system.

What Woodward and Bernstein Got Wrong About Watergate

Will Bunch | Posted 08.18.2012 | Media
Will Bunch

The real crimes of the last 40 years didn't fit into the box that Woodward and Bernstein and the Watergate scandal helped to create. In the end, the real exceptionalism of Richard Nixon was merely that he was dumb enough to get caught. The rest of them all got away with it.

Butlers, Burglars and Bunglers

Patricia McGuire | Posted 08.13.2012 | DC
Patricia McGuire

Woodward and Bernstein took us on a walk down memory lane this past weekend with their 40 year retrospective on the idea that Richard Nixon was even worse than we thought, if that's possible.

Where Were You When The Watergate Scandal Broke?

Nancy Wurtzel | Posted 08.11.2012 | Fifty
Nancy Wurtzel

Watergate. Has it really been 40 years? I was just a small-town teenager in the summer of 1972, but I remember being fascinated as the break-in and protracted cover-up unfolded. It was a drama like no other.

WATCH: Woodward, Bernstein Speak Out On Leaks Controversy

Posted 06.11.2012 | Media

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein defended the press while discussing recent charges that the White House leaked classified national security informatio...

Woodward & Bernstein: Nixon Was Far Worse Than We Thought

The Washington Post | Posted 06.08.2012 | Media

As Sen. Sam Ervin completed his 20-year Senate career in 1974 and issued his final report as chairman of the Senate Watergate committee, he posed the ...

Major WaPo Figure Reflects On Watergate, Deep Throat

New York Magazine | Posted 04.29.2012 | Media

One day in early 2007, Bob Woodward poked his head into my office. He and his wife, Elsa, had been out for dinner the night before with Ben Bradlee an...

Did Mark Felt Even Know He Was Deep Throat?

Barry Sussman | Posted 06.12.2012 | Media
Barry Sussman

I was the editor in charge of the Watergate investigation for the Post; that was my assignment from the day of the break-in and for the following 15 months. I never knew Deep Throat's identity until it was released in 2005. But there are some things I know first-hand.

At The 'Sweet And Sad' Forum With Carl Bernstein, Alec Baldwin

Hallie Seegal | Posted 11.13.2011 | Home
Hallie Seegal

Richard Nelson's Sweet and Sad elucidates why many of us feel a tug of shame when we stop to consider how the 9/11 attacks changed us, if at all.

Media and Moral Values

George Mitrovich | Posted 09.20.2011 | Media
George Mitrovich

I find the saga in England absorbing. As a former press secretary to two U.S. senators and a press aide to Bobby Kennedy in the presidential campaign of '68, media are a significant part of my life.

Business Leadership and Murdoch's Fatal Flaw

Brian Whetten | Posted 09.20.2011 | Business
Brian Whetten

When we see an executive featured in a corporate scandal, it's usually because they became addicted to success. And sooner or later, this addiction consumed them.

Is Tribalism on the Increase?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Daniel Cubias

When I was a college student, I worked at the student newspaper. I was a longhaired, hard-drinking journalist -- a Woodward and/or Bernstein in traini...

Peculiar Posner

Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Russ Baker

At first glance, I thought my eyes were deceiving me. Here's a complaint letter to the editor published in The New York Times, from a man representing...