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One example is “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film that is loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s post-Watergate novel “Vineland.”
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
Then, in the ’60s and ’70s, the post-Watergate era, news organizations made a deliberate and, some would argue, commercial decision to embrace these norms of objectivity, independence, and serving the public sphere.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2025
He was remembered for the role he played in a post-Watergate world and for leaving one of the most impactful post-presidency legacies in history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024
Sen. Paul Simon, co-authored by then-first-term state Sen. Barack Obama and signed by Republican Gov. Jim Edgar, the Gift Ban Act was the first major ethics reform in Illinois since post-Watergate campaign-finance disclosure laws.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2023
And as far back as that first piano concerto, written during the post-Watergate bicentennial of American independence, Bolcom wrote that it was one of “one of the bitterest pieces” he’d conceived so far.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2022
