The Washington Post is facing a scale of collapse perhaps never before seen in American journalism. In 2021, the newspaper had reached 22.5 million digital users. By mid-2024, however, that had fallen to just 3 million. Twenty million daily viewers were...
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Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:59:41 +0000In the early 1990s, I visited Chartwell, Winston Churchill’s former home in the countryside of Kent in southeast England. Entering the house and traversing the grounds, I had a sensation of walking the footsteps of history, of imagining the great...
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Fri, 17 Jan 2025 05:06:02 +0000As Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth is grilled by senators, with Democrats attacking Hegseth’s supposed lack of qualifications, some history is called for. The Office of the Secretary of Defense (DoD) was created in 1947 in the Truman administration, a...
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Fri, 17 Jan 2025 05:06:00 +0000On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton — a suit brought against the Texas law mandating that pornography websites require age verification to prevent minors from accessing sexual content online. ...
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Fri, 17 Jan 2025 05:05:57 +0000Before leaving office next week, the acerbic, old man in the White House made certain to deliver a parting shot against American energy consumers who rejected his policies at the ballot box. The outgoing president’s executive order banning offshore oil...
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Fri, 17 Jan 2025 04:55:18 +0000The Monroe Doctrine, established in 1823, was originally drafted to protect U.S. interests against European powers that could try to recolonize South American countries gaining independence from Spain and to ward off Russian moves into the Pacific Northwest. Czarist Russia...
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Fri, 17 Jan 2025 04:55:16 +0000I say all the time when I write these 5QT columns that I want to make them actually quick, and I often fail miserably in that endeavor. But suffused with an added vigor for the task, and more importantly an...
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Fri, 17 Jan 2025 04:55:13 +0000California’s calamitous wildfires could threaten Democrats’ political monopoly there. The tragedy unfolding in California should have a national impact on the environmental policies that have helped produce it. It could also have political repercussions that reverberate well beyond the state....
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Fri, 17 Jan 2025 04:55:11 +0000Two days before Ronald Reagan took office, we met in Blair House’s guest quarters where he put polishing touches on his first inaugural address. While I had worked on several drafts, I was only a collaborator because for many days...
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Fri, 17 Jan 2025 04:55:10 +0000Wild flames continue to destroy the City of Angels, and California Governor Gavin Newsom has yet to be held accountable for his failure to prevent the Los Angeles fires. Join Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay on The Spectacle Podcast to discuss Newsom...
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