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As chief of staff to former President George H.W. Bush for 25 years, Jean Becker oversaw everything from the opening of his presid...

Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...

Less than 100 days before Americans go to the polls, the latest installment of Dateline: Washington examines what has been one of the...

When The Washington Post asked 162 political science scholars earlier this year which American president should be added to Mount Rushmore...

In the wake of the Super Tuesday primaries, the Library and the Truman Library Institute launch a new season of Dateline:...

Remember Barack Obama’s subtle 2008 putdown of Hillary Clinton, when he called her “likable enough?” Maybe the joke is on him....

Few journalists have studied the issue of global warming with the thoroughness of The New York Times’ Justin Gillis, who...

Time magazine editor-at-large David Von Drehle holds a public conversation with Washington Post reporter...

Time magazine’s David Von Drehle and Bloomberg blogger Megan McArdle discuss Freeing the Economy i...

The August Dateline: Washington event at the Kansas City Public Library was supposed to be about outer space. Just outer space. Host...