04/20/2016 - 09:23
The presidential election is one long debate about which qualities make a man -- or woman -- presidential timber.
04/06/2016 - 13:45
Early in his speech Tuesday night, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the Republican victor in the Wisconsin primary, began to sound as if he was holding a campaign staff meeting, the sort in which eyes glance restlessly at wristwatches.
03/16/2016 - 22:35
They took what they could carry and left, just left, traipsing across their country and packing onto dilapidated boats. All were starving, most were penniless, many were sick. Their only hope was an ocean away.
03/14/2016 - 08:38
When Britain repealed the Stamp Act, 250 years ago this month, the Colonies celebrated, but that same day the king signed another law that ultimately became even more detested.
02/22/2016 - 10:13
Wanted: Energetic self-starter for demanding, exhausting, unpaid position. Successful candidate will surrender much of his/her privacy for the next four years and live in a well-appointed goldfish bowl. Security system includes a decorative fence, guards and snipers.
02/08/2016 - 20:29
This week's news is dominated by the New Hampshire primaries, so here is a political question: Who was the only president born in the Granite State?
01/25/2016 - 13:32
Every day, tourists in Washington, D.C., walk by the statue of an American general who was not only a key figure in World War I, but also a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and, briefly, a presidential contender.
01/11/2016 - 23:19
The State of the Union address has become a tweetable moment, an opportunity for history buffs, politicos and anyone else with a smartphone to engage in poignant and not-so-poignant one-liners.
01/06/2016 - 11:06
There was the secretary of state who didn’t quite grasp the impact of a nuclear explosion. There was talk of preventative war and perhaps a showdown with the Soviet Union.
01/04/2016 - 13:16
A 60-year-old document reveals nuclear plans of the U.S. government in the event of war and details a strategy that would have included destroying population centers.
