Tag: History

After Alan Dershowitz delivered a speech at the University of California, Berkeley, the student newspaper published a editorial cartoon of the Harvard Law professor that many condemned as a throwback to the anti-Semitic imagery of the Nazi era. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Beltway Confidential

Alan Dershowitz: Why is a Jewish-American newspaper defending an anti-Semitic cartoon?

Alan Dershowitz · October 31, 2017 11:00 pm

"Does this administration think that slavery is wrong?" Ryan asked. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Reporter April Ryan asks White House if slavery was ‘wrong’

Eddie Scarry · October 31, 2017 7:36 pm

White House chief of staff John Kelly comments on the Civil War sparked backlash. He said, "the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War, and men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had them make their stand." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

John Kelly faces backlash for saying ‘lack of an ability to compromise’ led to Civil War

Melissa Quinn · October 31, 2017 2:32 pm

Members of President Donald Trump's Secret Service detail walk with the First Family's motorcade vehicle as they move alone the Inauguration Day Parade Route in Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

In 2017, Lee Harvey Oswald would fail at Dealey Plaza

Tom Rogan · October 30, 2017 2:07 pm

Nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar's Rakhine state and arrived in Bangladesh since Aug. 25 to avoid persecution that the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

President Trump, heed the plight of the Rohingya

Murat Guzel · October 29, 2017 4:01 am

Part of a web page showing the page from the National Archives showing a listing of records released on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, in Washington, relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. President Donald Trump blocked the release of hundreds of records on the Kennedy assassination, bending to CIA and FBI appeals, while the National Archives moved to turn over some 2,800 other records. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Trump pledges to release all JFK files, but will leave out info identifying living people

Daniel Chaitin · October 28, 2017 12:29 am

The Shakespearean play Henry V begins with 28-year-old King Henry V of England contemplating his territorial claims in France.

Beltway Confidential

Why Henry V is Shakespeare’s best play

Tom Rogan · October 27, 2017 10:11 pm

Nathan Michael Smith, a former Army intelligence analyst, filed a suit last year claiming President Obama was illegally fighting Islamic State terrorists without congressional authorization. His case is being heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

National Security

Trump Justice Department: Wars are off limits to court review

Steven Nelson · October 27, 2017 8:34 pm

The National Archives has released thousands of never-before-seen documents that detail a range of schemes to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, from poison to explosives. (AP Photo)

Five ways the US thought about killing Fidel Castro

Pete Kasperowicz · October 27, 2017 2:35 am

The plan was revealed in a document released Thursday by the National Archives, one of several thousand released as part of the files that still remained secret. (AP Photo)

Kennedy mulled bounty system to kill Cubans that valued Castro at 2 cents

Pete Kasperowicz · October 27, 2017 12:38 am

Senior White House officials said Thursday evening that President Trump withheld certain documents related to the Kennedy assassination in response to concern from agencies about revealing sensitive information, specifically relating to the use of sources and cooperation with other countries. (AP Photo/Jim Altgens, File)

Trump orders release of 2,800 JFK files, withholds others pending review

Steven Nelson · October 26, 2017 10:46 pm

The documents were released Thursday. (AP Photo)

Government in a ‘mad scramble’ to prepare JFK documents by deadline: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · October 26, 2017 9:39 pm