Richard Nixon

At a time when news sources are as diverse as they are and more globally connected than ever before, how can we know who to believe, if anyone? Leonar(...)

We are reminded today, on the 40th anniversary of the Gen Augusto Pinochet’s blood-sodden coup in Chile, of a cruel dictatorship that still casts a pa(...)

For half a century, Sir David Frost, who has died aged 74, was hardly ever off television, from 1960s satire on the BBC to encounters with the great a(...)

US president Barack Obama saw progress in Washington this week on three items on the wishlist of legislative changes planned for his second term: the (...)

While we were busy eliminating smoking by making the packets look like cool posters from the golden era of Italian horror, something considerably more(...)

Richard Nixon made no bones about it. He told the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to look into thousands of political opponents and even had it (...)

Second term US presidencies have a habit of going wrong, as Richard Nixon’s Watergate, Ronald Reagan’s Iran-Contra and Bill Clinton’s Monica Le(...)

Former US president George W Bush, one of the most controversial presidents of the modern age, has said he is comfortable with(...)

Porn actor Harry Reems, who made his name starring opposite Linda Lovelace in the 1972 movie Deep Throat, has died at the age of 65, according (...)