This is the grave of Francis Preston Blair. Born in Abingdon, Virginia in 1791 to a politically ambitious family, Blair’s father would become Kentucky’s attorney general after the family m
Thanks to globalization, the tortilla is in decline. From the city to the countryside, the Mexican tortilla is in crisis. Consumption has dropped nearly 45 percent in the last 35 years, according to t
Donald Trump had a face-saving narrative put together to avoid a shutdown: 1)call any border security funding “the wall,” and 2)claim that the lightly renegotiated NAFTA constituted Mexico
This is the grave of Chester Arthur. Born in Fairfield, Vermont in 1829. A minister’s son, the family moved around a lot in his early years, finally settling in Schenectady, New York. He was a W
Oh shut up Jerry: California Gov. Jerry Brown isn’t concerned that the increasingly diverse, women-dominated Democratic Party will chafe at having a white male nominee in the 2020 presidential campa
With Republicans about to lose the House majority, they had to take one last attempt to do the one thing that unites all Republicans–giving money to rich people. But the way this happened is the
Yikes: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery Friday for early stage lung cancer, a Supreme Court spokesperson tells NPR. Doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital in New York performed a lo
If you’d asked me about the fate of the American-led international system a few weeks ago, I would have said that Trump has done enormous damage to US leadership and national security, some of t