History

President Trump speaks during a news conference, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

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Is Trump our worst president ever? Not even close

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Senate

C-SPAN gets inside the Senate like never before

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December 30, 2018 8:19 pm

In this Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018 photo, California Gov. Jerry Brown discusses his time in the state's highest office during an interview with The Associated Press in Sacramento, Calif. Brown, a Democrat, will leave office Jan. 7 after serving a record four terms.

Energy and Environment

Jerry Brown: Climate change ‘an enemy’ as ‘devastating’ as the Nazis

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December 30, 2018 6:06 pm

FILE - In this Friday, April 19, 2013, file photo, Simcha Rotem, the last known remaining Jewish fighter from the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis, speaks in front of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial during the revolt anniversary ceremonies in Warsaw, Poland. Rotem has died on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. He was 94.

Magazine - Obituary

Through the sewers against the Nazis

Philip Terzian -

December 28, 2018 5:01 am

The sheet music of "Jingle Bells", a song that is within the public domain, is surrounded by a curling red ribbon and red Christmas bells of various sizes.

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The mystery and surprising history behind ‘Jingle Bells’

J. Mark Powell -

December 25, 2018 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Harry Truman’s crazy Christmas flight

J. Mark Powell -

December 24, 2018 5:00 am

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt talk together at the White House.

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77 years ago, America got the WWII Christmas surprise it needed: Winston Churchill

J. Mark Powell -

December 23, 2018 5:00 am

A group samples a flight of beers at the Maine Brewing Company in Freeport, Maine.

Op-Eds

85 years ago, lawmakers gave beer its second constitutional amendment

Craig Purser -

December 23, 2018 5:00 am

U.S. President Herbert Hoover, third from left, poses with his family at the Washington community Christmas tree after lighting the tree on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1931. From left to right are, Allan Hoover, son; first lady Lou Henry Hoover; the President; daughter-in-law Margaret Hoover and her husband, Herbert Hoover Jr., and Colonel James A. Ulio, aid to the president. The grandchildren are Herbert III, known as Pete, left, and Peggy Ann, holding the president's hand.

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The first White House Christmas during the Great Depression was bad enough — then the flames started

J. Mark Powell -

December 22, 2018 5:00 am

Red Alert Politics

History by mob rule: University of Cincinnati considers expunging benefactor’s contribution to its own legacy

Brad Johnson -

December 19, 2018 8:51 pm

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Is Trump our worst president ever? Not even close

C-SPAN gets inside the Senate like never before

Jerry Brown: Climate change ‘an enemy’ as ‘devastating’ as the Nazis

Through the sewers against the Nazis

The mystery and surprising history behind ‘Jingle Bells’

Harry Truman’s crazy Christmas flight

77 years ago, America got the WWII Christmas surprise it needed: Winston Churchill

85 years ago, lawmakers gave beer its second constitutional amendment

The first White House Christmas during the Great Depression was bad enough — then the flames started

History by mob rule: University of Cincinnati considers expunging benefactor’s contribution to its own legacy

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