The Watergate reporters look back.

In the course of his five-and-a-half-year presidency, beginning in 1969, Nixon launched and managed five successive and overlapping wars — against the anti-Vietnam War movement, the news media, the Democrats, the justice system and, finally, against history itself. All reflected a mind-set and a pattern of behavior that were uniquely and pervasively Nixon’s: a willingness to disregard the law for political advantage, and a quest for dirt and secrets about his opponents as an organizing principle of his presidency.

On the last weekend of April 2011, two things happened in Washington D.C.: the annual White House Correspondents Dinner and the decision to raid Osama bin Laden’s compound. This is the story of how both transpired.

An artifact from the height of the uproar:

Behind the tawdriest of headlines, there's a woman I wouldn't mind bringing home to mom.

Lessons learned about Washington from investigating how the “grand bargain” fell apart.

Taking the measure of the president, with a view to history.

Inside the relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan:

The U.S. government has lied to itself, and to its citizens, about the nature and actions of successive Pakistani governments. Pakistani behavior over the past 20 years has rendered the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism effectively meaningless.

On the privilege of being then-Vice President George H.W. Bush.

A profile of Elizabeth Warren.

Why has the White House ignored clemency petitions?

Retracing the early economic steps of the Obama administration.

On witnessing the transformation of George W. Bush over 25 years.

An ex-spook takes on the Warren Commission.

Traveling with President Clinton.

On a decade-long war:

Hackers from many countries have been exfiltrating—that is, stealing—intellectual property from American corporations and the U.S. government on a massive scale, and Chinese hackers are among the main culprits.

The rise and dissolution of the magazine that nearly took down a president.

On Hillary Clinton’s Arab Spring.

Inside Obama’s most glaring reversal.

A newly minted, 34-year-old White House budget director gets a little too candid with a reporter profiling him during Ronald Reagan’s first year in office. Among Stockman’s many admissions: “None of us really understands what’s going on with all these numbers.”

Obama’s presidency may well be defined by whether or not he can curb unemployment. Step One: find a decent idea.

A quasi-oral history of the party that was JFK’s 1961 inauguration.

On George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points.

A Bush speechwriter tells all.

A profile of Eric Holder.

The story of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, written and published the following week.

A profile of Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, published at the height of the controversy.