{"id":18409,"date":"2025-08-30T16:32:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=18409"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:32:46","slug":"how-the-american-political-landscape-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=18409","title":{"rendered":"How the American Political Landscape Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">After nearly five decades, Dan Balz is retiring from <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, where he covered 12 elections and eight presidencies as a political correspondent. On <em>Washington Week With The Atlantic<\/em>, Jeffrey Goldberg asks Balz about the state of American democracy today, and how he\u2019s seen the landscape of politics change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cOver the course of 50 years that I\u2019ve been doing this, I think that the most important shift,\u201d Balz said last night, is that \u201cpolitics has gotten tougher, coarser, and meaner.\u201d There\u2019s always \u201cebb and flow\u201d in politics, he continued. But trust in government \u201cfell off the cliff during Vietnam and Watergate, and it\u2019s basically been down ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Watch the full episode\u2014and learn more about the figures who changed American politics\u2014here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly five decades, Dan Balz is retiring from The Washington Post, where he covered 12 elections and eight presidencies as a political correspondent. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg asks Balz about the state of American democracy today, and how he\u2019s seen the landscape of politics change. \u201cOver the course of 50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[473,1442,8128,1913],"class_list":{"0":"post-18409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-changed","10":"tag-landscape","11":"tag-political"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}