Today’s funniest news (except for the parents, whose pain any parent can kind of feel): CNN reports that a toddler managed to get crawl into White House grounds. He was safely apprehended, although it apparently did take two security officers...
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The latest from Archivegate
It turns out that a box of stuff Trump took to Mar-a-Lago after his presidency contained classified material. Here is Reid J. Epstein and Michael S. Schmidt’s reporting at The New York Times: The National Archives and Records Administration discovered...
The Author’s Corner with Jonathan White
Jonathan White is Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of the Pre-Law Program at Christopher Newport University. This interview is based on his new book, A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House (Rowman...
Trump supporter Tom Brady jokes with Biden: “4o percent of people still don’t think we won”… the Super Bowl
When you lose Tom Brady: Jonathan Chait tells us what this means here....
Ah, the memories! Court evangelicals in their natural habitat
Jim Garlow, one of the lesser-known court evangelicals, shared this video today at his public Facebook page. The date was May 3, 2017. I see the following court evangelicals schmoozing with their political savior as the band plays “New York,...
The greatest threat to the Biden presidency
It took a lot of courage for the editors of Slate to publish today’s anonymous op-ed, but I appreciate the online magazine’s concern about our democracy and the sorry state of the current administration. Here is a taste of “I...
We are learning more about the chaos in the Oval Office during the finals days of the Trump presidency
Jonathan Swan of Axios describes a crazy December 18, 2020 shouting match in the White House as conspiracy theorists Sidney Powell, Michael Flynn and others tried to get Donald Trump to act upon their belief that the Democrats stole the...
Putting the January 6, 2021 insurrection in historical context
Catherine Halley of JSTOR Daily offers some great resources. Here is a taste of her January 7 piece: Yesterday our friends who teach sixth grade were asking: how do I talk to my students about the insurrection that just happened...