Tag: Thomas Jefferson

President Trump holds up copies of his speech before the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018.

Washington Secrets

Good company: 26 of 45 presidents didn’t give State of the Union speech

Paul Bedard · January 16, 2019 3:59 pm

Beltway Confidential

Thank goodness we ended Prohibition

Quin Hillyer · December 5, 2018 7:20 pm

The Supreme Court can fix Establishment Clause jurisprudence with the Peace Cross case

Alexandra McPhee · November 6, 2018 5:00 am

This is an undated photo of a 1800 portrait of Thomas Jefferson by artist Rembrandt Peale.

On Bastille Day, a reminder that Thomas Jefferson got the French Revolution totally wrong

Miles Smith · July 14, 2018 4:00 am

Public statue from 1882 of George Washington in front of Federal Hall, on the site where he was inaugurated as the first U.S. president in New York City.

George Washington’s Fourths of July

Salena Zito · July 4, 2018 3:18 pm

Thomas Jefferson statue on the Hofstra University campus.

Beltway Confidential

In campus attacks on Thomas Jefferson, Dave Brat sees decline of Judeo-Christian tradition

Emily Jashinsky · June 9, 2018 4:00 am

Thomas Jefferson statue on the Hofstra University campus.

Red Alert Politics

Hofstra may be keeping the Jefferson statue but it is for the wrong reasons

Brendan Pringle · June 4, 2018 7:02 pm

Jefferson Statue UVA

Beltway Confidential

‘Racist + Rapist’: Thomas Jefferson statue vandalized at UVA

Emily Jashinsky · April 13, 2018 4:07 pm

The University of California, Berkeley, campus newspaper refused to publish Naweed Tahmas' opinion piece on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, so Red Alert Politics decided to publish it instead. (Naweed Tahams)

Here’s the conservative op-ed the UC Berkeley student paper refused to publish

Naweed Tahmas · February 1, 2018 8:01 am

In 1913, a freshly inaugurated President Woodrow Wilson delivered his State of the Union address to both chambers of Congress in a joint session. (AP Photo, File)

Beltway Confidential

State of the Union addresses aren’t usually shocking, but the 1913 one was

J. Mark Powell · January 30, 2018 5:01 am

A Game of Constitutions

Jay Cost · January 13, 2018 1:02 am

Most presidents start from their base and work their way outward, from the core into wider circles. Trump seems to be trying to reduce his base of support. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

How low can Trump go?

Noemie Emery · December 19, 2017 5:01 am