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Just before the July Fourth holiday, Atlantic magazine online ran a short article entitled "The Capitol City is a mess" in which the writer, Matt Viser, commented on the many eyesores awaiting visitors to Washington, D.C., as the nation celebrated its 250th birthday. According to Viser, the ...

In the coming days, National Park rangers may find visitors asking about the location of Christopher Gist's grave somewhere near Fort Necessity, this following the release of the splashy new film, the heavily advertised "Young Washington." A production of Angel Studios, the movie depicts a ...

OP-ED: 13 books for the 13 colonies

History counts, and on this Fourth of July weekend, here are 13 histories and biographies that entertain, enlighten and perhaps inspire. The selections are purely subjective and personal and by no means exhaustive. Shockingly (to me), there's nothing here about the American Revolution and its ...

John Fetterman is not easy to understand. The tall, grungy-looking senior senator from Pennsylvania is, politically-speaking, literally unfathomable. This past week he again broke ranks with his fellow Democrats on another consequential matter. By voting against a War Powers resolution offered ...

June 27, 1936, Philadelphia: Rain threatened to disrupt President Franklin Roosevelt's speech outdoors at Franklin Field. By the time evening fell, however, starlight glinted through patchy clouds. On this fourth and final day of the Democratic National Convention, some 100,000 party faithful ...

Congressman Guy Reschenthaler's continued failure to visit parts of his district has one overriding explanation: In order to be elected time and again, he doesn't have to. The Republican Reschenthaler has occupied a seat in Congress since 2019. His district consists of Fayette, Greene, and ...