There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's "too soft" or "too hard," about 999 would say "too hard."

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.

If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.