Tag: History

Cruz took a subtle shot at Florida Sen. Marco Rubio during a speech in Mount Pleasant, S.C. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Cruz invokes Reagan in call to strengthen military

Ryan Lovelace · February 16, 2016 4:56 pm

How history shapes the New Hampshire primary

How history shapes the New Hampshire primary

Michael Barone · February 8, 2016 5:02 am

Obama: ‘I’m not the first’ president accused of being a Muslim

Obama: ‘I’m not the first’ president accused of being a Muslim

Nicole Duran · February 3, 2016 7:56 pm

Few of the senators and congressmen in attendance registered staunch opposition to the compromise bill.Â (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Confronting the hard truths of America’s civic illiteracy

Eric Bledsoe · February 1, 2016 5:01 am

WATCH: Reagan addresses the nation after Challenger disaster

National Security

WATCH: Reagan addresses the nation after Challenger disaster

Washington Examiner Staff · January 28, 2016 4:50 pm

McKinley was a creative candidate and innovative policymaker, adapting to a changing nation. (AP Photo)

Karl Rove: Why McKinley still matters

Michael Barone · January 21, 2016 8:31 pm

Ben Bernanke concluded that the Third Reich's rapid recovery suggests that "more aggressive fiscal programs" would also have helped the United States out of its own depression. (AP Photo)

(Chair)Man in the high castle

Scott Burns · January 15, 2016 5:02 am

Burns is a good launching-off point for folks who want to take in the natural world. (AP)

What the press isn’t telling you about Burns, Ore.

Jeremy Lott · January 12, 2016 3:25 am

Alfred Street Baptist Church, a historic black church across the Potomac River in Alexandria, Va., has pledged $1 million to the project, making it the first faith-based organization to support the museum. (AP Photo)

New Smithsonian museum receives $1 million from local church

Anna Giaritelli · January 5, 2016 11:56 pm

Tacitus the Great

Joseph Epstein · December 31, 2015 5:15 am

Developments today again are not nearly as dire as the situation in the 1930s, when immigration was close to zero and we blocked the entry of most Jewish and political refugees from Nazi-threatened Europe. (AP Photo, file)

Battening down the hatches, reminiscent of the 1930s

Michael Barone · December 30, 2015 10:00 pm

Previously reticent and skeptical about such things, Obama is now energetic and self-assured when he talks about "American values." (AP File Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama’s American values charade

Anne Pierce · December 29, 2015 5:02 am