All the president’s madmen: making America crazy again

OPINION: The comparisons between the U.S.’s current political crisis and Watergate are becoming more obvious.

Veteran NBC News broadcaster Tom Brokaw, who covered the Watergate scandal under former U.S. president Richard Nixon, left, cited the White House of President Donald Trump, right, 'trying to create an alternative reality' as just one common theme between the two, writes Lisa Van Dusen. Photographs courtesy of the U.S. National Archives & Records Administration and Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

February 7, 2018

Browsing in a Montreal bookstore the other day, I came across the French version of All the President’s Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s 1974 bestseller chronicling their Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporting on the unravelling of Richard Nixon’s presidency. It’s not called To...

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