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government transparency

SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
12/8/2020

Cleaning House: Watergate and the Limits of Reform

by John A. Lawrence

The reform agenda of the "Watergate Babies" class elected to Congress in 1974 achieved important successes but failed to prevent either the rise of the imperial presidency or increased partisan polarization.

SOURCE: Salon
3/17/2020

Historian David Perry: After Trump, We'll Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission

A Truth and Reconciliation commission would be a necessary first step in documenting the Trump regime's crimes and assaults on truth, reality and America's collective memory.