After Harvard University stood up to reportedly unauthorized demands from the Trump administration that it cede control to ...

President Trump is looking to use the IRS to achieve some of his political goals. Some experts see parallels with Nixon's ...

From the outset, overworked agents were susceptible to corruption and political influence in deciding whose returns to audit. Franklin D. Roosevelt brazenly used IRS audits as a weapon against ...

The IRS has a long and murky history of both suspected and proven involvement in political battles, even though it’s against the law. Former FBI officials James Comey and Andrew McCabe both ...

Bridget Roberts, head of the agency’s direct file system, has an explicitly anti-Trump history ... political committees 59 times since 2010, totaling $1,330. Holly Paz, head of the IRS's ...

Some Americans who have vivid memories of Watergate — including former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks and 1970s ...

The chickens come home to roost for elite universities. Photo: Sophie Park/Getty Images When Congress created the federal income tax in 1913, it excluded universities, recognizing that these ...

That law was passed to counter a history of presidents, from Calvin Coolidge to Bill Clinton, using the IRS to go after their political enemies. President John F. Kennedy had the IRS set up an ...