Tag: History

British Commando troops landing on the Normandy beachhead on D-day. British Commandos advancing inland to gain the first Normandy village, on June 7,1944.

Beltway Confidential

D-Day and the morality of bloody killing

Tom Rogan · June 5, 2019 7:06 pm

Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a rally.

Is Biden really the safe bet? History shows Democrats win with youth and charisma

Emily Brooks · June 5, 2019 4:00 am

Chinese immigrants working on the Transcontinental Railroad.

Elaine Chao: Chinese workers helped build this country, let’s make them part of our folklore

Sec. Elaine Chao · June 5, 2019 4:00 am

A slave ship and a restauratrice: Black history done right

Quin Hillyer · June 4, 2019 11:08 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel greets graduating Harvard students as she walks in a procession though Harvard Yard at the start of Harvard University commencement exercises, Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Cambridge, Mass.

Angela Merkel’s Harvard commencement speech was disappointing, trite, and vague

Nick Danby · June 4, 2019 8:08 pm

Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead code-named Omaha Beach, on the northern coast of France on June 6, 1944, during the Allied invasion of the Normandy coast.

Beltway Confidential

D-Day remembered: The view from Omaha Beach

Quin Hillyer · June 4, 2019 2:18 pm

A young woman is caught between civilians and Chinese soldiers, who were trying to remove her from an assembly near the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Over seven weeks in 1989, the student-led pro-democracy protests centered on Beijingâs Tiananmen Square became Chinaâs greatest political upheaval since the end of the decadelong Cultural Revolution more than a decade earlier.

Never forget Tiananmen Square

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2019 4:00 am

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II greets President Trump as he arrives for a welcome ceremony in the garden of Buckingham Palace in London.

Queen a good sport as Trump breaches etiquette — twice

Rob Crilly · June 3, 2019 10:41 pm

President Trump is seen along the West Wing Colonnade at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Daniel Hannan: D-Day, 75 years on

Dan Hannan · June 3, 2019 12:00 am

Joe Biden and Donald Trump

Democratic attacks on Trump and Vietnam open door to scrutiny of Biden avoiding draft

Emily Brooks · May 31, 2019 4:05 am

Magazine - Obituary

Obituary: Edmund Morris

Philip Terzian · May 31, 2019 4:00 am

Magazine - Personal Finance

Then and Now: Weather reports

Jay Caruso · May 31, 2019 4:00 am