Carson Becker

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In this Sept. 30, 1971 file photo, New York lawyer Roy Cohn, one-time counsel for the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy's Communist-hunting investigation, appears in Austin, Texas. Cohn is the subject of a documentary “Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn." (AP Photo/Ted Powers, File)

A captivating new biography of the flawed fixer Roy Cohn

Carson Becker · September 27, 2026 5:45 am

Luxury yachts docked in Gustavia Harbor, St. Barths. (Getty Images)

‘Treasured Island’ is a definitive look at the elite island of St. Barth

Carson Becker · August 23, 2026 6:05 am

An advertisement for Kalshi hangs in downtown Washington, D.C., April 1, 2026. (Allison Robbert/AP)

Kalshi and prediction markets experience explosive growth, but also new legal challenges

Carson Becker · August 22, 2026 4:00 pm

London England history

A glimpse into a city’s sordid decline in ‘London Falling’

Carson Becker · July 19, 2026 5:00 am

Global power world power book reviews

Brendan Simms’s new book asks, have great powers returned?

Carson Becker · June 28, 2026 5:15 am

Statues of Soviet Leader Josef Stalin. Concept Of Nostalgia For Soviet Union. Miniature Bronze Figurines Of Joseph Stalin.

Onward, Stalinist soldiers

Carson Becker · June 1, 2026 6:45 am

North Korea history South Korea Asia

Jonathan Cheng’s ‘Korean Messiah’ explores the hidden history of a hermit kingdom

Carson Becker · May 8, 2026 6:19 am

Leon Trotsky, a Russian revolutionary and rival of Joseph Stalin, assassinated in 1940.

Trotsky’s fatal conceit

Carson Becker · March 27, 2026 4:44 am

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Capitol Hill in 2009. (Harry Hamburg/AP)

A character like Harry Reid

Carson Becker · January 30, 2026 4:15 am

Fat Shot illo (Illustration by Barbara Kyttle/Washington Examiner)

The origin story of the ‘fat shot’

Carson Becker · December 5, 2025 4:15 am

The Shah of Iran, second right, Crown Prince Riza, right, and Empress Farah, third right, watch the laying of a wreath laying ceremony at Pasargadae, Iran, Oct. 12, 1971. (AP Photo)

Missing the Iranian Revolution: Review of ‘King of Kings’ by Scott Anderson

Carson Becker · August 21, 2025 11:30 pm

The curdling of California and Gavin’s party

Carson Becker · March 28, 2025 12:25 am

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