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Historian at Stanford University, author of "Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World" and "Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion." It's good to have options.
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I think we've got our equivalent to the inferno/golfers photo of 2017.

I don't know, folks. This could just be a recurring Ross-and-Rachel plot line.

You all understand that this would never happen in a serious country, right?

This is what we get for doubting Suetonius.

Few are as good as Casey at explaining Congress clearly: “To most people, congressional procedure is little more than Washington process-speak. But the rules matter, because they shape what government does and how it does it.” I’d add they also contribute to our authoritarian crisis moment…

Or, one could just invest in actual news reporting.

That look on Bush's face . . .

It is May 2192 and a glitchy holographic AI rendering of Elon Musk makes its quarterly proclamation that it is leaving Washington. No one remembers how this custom began.

Ummm . . .

Who's going to tell our esteemed colleague?

Calamitous and utterly predictable.

Article in the @washingtonpost.com on the Historical Advisory Committee dismissals, incl. interviews w @melanimca.bsky.social @rimmerma.bsky.social and Sarah Snyder www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...

We've got to insist on contracts barring the use of AI, except with mutual assent, throughout the editing and production process.

Sisyphus was a writing teacher

Dan Rather was brutally assaulted by an insane stranger and managed to retain his dignity.

Historian here. The history of “little fingers” stereotype as a rationale for underpaying women and children is long and dishonorable.