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Column: Is our flag at half staff all the time now? For Memorial Day, we asked why
Chicago Tribune· 9 hours agoThis Memorial Day, assuming you wake up early enough, you may notice the United States flag at half...
Comer compares Biden to Nixon over special counsel tapes
The Hill· 5 days agoHouse Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) compared President Biden to...
Biden, Trump debate would be first without Commission on Presidential Debates since 1987
United Press International via Yahoo News· 2 days agoPresident Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have loosely agreed to debate twice this...
Opinion | What Trump Looks Like to Historians
New York Times· 4 days agoMr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. When historians and political scientists rank...
'Vote in the streets?’ Vietnam War protesters reassess strategy more than 50 years later
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThey chanted “vote with your feet, vote in the street” during protests, and refused to participate...
Here’s the Thing About Presidential Debates
The Dispatch via AOL· 5 days agoWe supposedly need to have presidential debates because we’ve always had presidential debates. But this isn’t true. The first presidential debates,...
On This Day, May 22: Crater Lake National Park established
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 days agoOn May 22, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt established Crater Lake National Park in southwest...
Backlash: America Cools on Crazy
The Ponca City News· 2 days agoThe morning after the 1972 election in which Richard Nixon defeated liberal Democrat George McGovern by 23 points, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael wandered ...
Throwback Thursday: Nixon greets McCain after release
Boston Herald· 4 days agoPresident Richard Nixon greets U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. John McCain in Washington after the latter’s...
On This Day, May 26: USS Bennington explodes, killing dozens
United Press International via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoPhoto courtesy the Imperial War Museum In 1972, at a Moscow summit, U.S. President Richard Nixon and...