Tag: History

Winning the West

Michael Barone · June 22, 2015 4:01 am

In this June 10, 2015 photo, traders work at Hong Kong's Stock Exchange in Hong Kong.Â (AP Photo)Â

Trade politics and the decline of American leadership

Robert Rogowsky · June 17, 2015 9:00 am

Voters debate during a caucus of precinct 42 near Smithland, Iowa, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)

Beltway Confidential

Rejoice! The Iowa Straw Poll is dead

Jason Russell · June 12, 2015 3:24 pm

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. fields a flurry of phone calls in his Capitol Hill office in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, after he announced that he would retire after 40 years in the House of Representatives. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Supposedly a ‘Lobbyist’s Nightmare,’ liberal Henry Waxman spins easily through the revolving door

Timothy P. Carney · June 10, 2015 5:52 pm

It's not lack of experience that hampers Obama; it's his refusal to learn a thing from it. (AP Photo)Â

Temperament counts

Noemie Emery · June 9, 2015 9:00 am

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during the 69th session of the U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Fixing the U.N.

Kim Holmes · June 8, 2015 4:01 am

D-Day Anniversary

D-Day Anniversary

Daniel Halper · June 7, 2015 12:43 am

Watch: Reagan delivers famous ‘Boys of Pointe du Hoc’ D-Day speech

Watch: Reagan delivers famous ‘Boys of Pointe du Hoc’ D-Day speech

Barbara Boland · June 6, 2015 8:50 am

SamÂ Tanenhuas lists Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy and several obscure archconservatives as being the fathers of the modern Republican policy. (AP Photo)Â

The war about peace

Noemie Emery · June 2, 2015 9:00 am

Those Who Fail to Learn from History

Those Who Fail to Learn from History

P.J. O'Rourke · May 27, 2015 2:14 pm

Men of U.S. 64th Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, celebrate the news of the Armistice. (U.S. Army - U.S. National Archive)

Why you shouldn’t confuse Memorial Day and Veterans Day

Emilie Padgett · May 25, 2015 9:00 am

World War II veteran Air Vice-Marshall William "Paddy" Harbison, hold his Royal Air Force (RAF) log book while attending an Arsenal of Democracy Flyover press briefing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on Tuesday, March 31. 2015. Harbison flew the P-51 Mustang, the Supermarine Spitfire, and later flew combat missions in Korea. (Graeme Jennings/WEX)

National Security

Inside old log book, memories of heroism

Tara Copp · May 25, 2015 9:00 am