Tag: History

2017’s Person of the Year

William Kristol · December 22, 2017 9:00 am

Hans Keilson: Love in Hiding

Arnon Grunberg · December 22, 2017 9:00 am

According to a letter from former President Richard Nixon, his wife Pat saw future President Donald Trump on a television program and was convinced he would win, should he run for office. (AP Photo/Bob Daughtery)

30 years ago today Richard Nixon wrote a letter to Trump predicting success in politics

Daniel Chaitin · December 22, 2017 3:37 am

Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Democrat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California may be feeling deja vu after the GOP's tax reform bill passed this week. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

GOP tax reform is a role reversal with Democrats

Capri Cafaro · December 21, 2017 4:08 am

It was the December 2016 Security Council Resolution, engineered by then-President Barack Obama, that changed the status of Jerusalem and complicated the efforts to achieve a compromise peace. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Beltway Confidential

Alan Dershowitz: The Jerusalem conflict is all Barack Obama’s fault

Alan Dershowitz · December 20, 2017 5:42 pm

And just as the other reindeer promised, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer did indeed go down in history. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Beltway Confidential

The Jewish man who created a Christmas classic

J. Mark Powell · December 20, 2017 5:01 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

Eternal Capital

Eric Cohen · December 15, 2017 6:19 pm

Murray Kempton at 100

Barton Swaim · December 15, 2017 9:00 am

A President Has No Friends

Philip Terzian · December 15, 2017 9:00 am

Visitors to the American Museum of Natural History look at a statue of Theodore Roosevelt, which includes a man in a Native American headdress, Friday, Nov. 17, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Red Alert Politics

More than 100 professors call for the removal of NYC statues in open letter to Bill de Blasio

John Patrick · December 14, 2017 6:28 pm

CBy 1860, large pine, spruce, and fir trees were harvested in Minnesota, floated down the Mississippi River on flatboats, and sold to eager Christmas tree customers in New Orleans and other Deep South cities. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

The woman who gave America the Christmas tree

J. Mark Powell · December 14, 2017 5:01 am