Tag: History

Magazine - Life & Arts

Mencken tries some cocktails

Eric Felten · March 10, 2023 3:55 am

President Joe Biden reaches for a pen before signing a series of executive orders on health care, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, in Washington.

Magazine - Features

Biden and the veto power

Tevi Troy · March 10, 2023 3:45 am

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-VA) greet guests before an event to introduce the Parents Bill of Rights Act in the Rayburn Room at the U.S. Capitol on March 01, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

Magazine - Special Section

McCarthy light-touch leadership differs from his predecessors’ top-down approach

Virginia Aabram · March 4, 2023 12:30 pm

Passers-by walk near the 20-foot-high bronze sculpture "The Embrace," a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, in the Boston Common, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, in Boston. The sculpture, consisting of four intertwined arms, was inspired by a photo of the Kings embracing when MLK learned he had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. The statue is to be unveiled during ceremonies Friday, Jan. 13, 2023.

Beltway Confidential

Monumental disappointments in our public spaces

Paul Zepeda · March 3, 2023 1:19 pm

Magazine - Life & Arts

This little historian went to market

Varad Mehta · March 3, 2023 6:51 am

A flailing Marxist history of California, capitalist success story

Magazine - Life & Arts

A flailing Marxist history of California, capitalist success story

Jason Willick · March 3, 2023 3:44 am

Beltway Confidential

Want to cure American amnesia? Teach history backward

Mark Judge · March 2, 2023 6:00 am

WATCH: NBA player claims governors are trying to rid schools of black history

Julia Johnson · March 2, 2023 12:27 am

In this June 2, 2009 photo, the Statue of Liberty is seen in New York harbor. The crown is set to open July 4 after being closed since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Beltway Confidential

Let’s reinvigorate history class

Jordan Adams · March 1, 2023 6:00 am

Equality, Not Elitism

Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum will be ‘inclusive’ of transgender women

Julia Johnson · February 28, 2023 2:08 pm

Beltway Confidential

At least Nikole Hannah-Jones is honest about the 1619 Project’s goals

Mike Gonzalez · February 25, 2023 6:00 am

Magazine - Life & Arts

The Taft family

Avi Woolf · February 24, 2023 3:30 am