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Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh...

Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...

Matt Gallagher has emerged in the past decade as one of literature’s most distinctive and perceptive voices on the Iraq War. As an Ar...

This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860....

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

His comedies, histories, and tragedies have been performed worldwide for more than 400 years, but William Shakespeare’s personal life remains somethin...

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

Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman launched the year’s most anticipated literary magazine, the biannual Freeman’s, in S...

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

Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache...