Constitutions deal with the real world, which is never as simple as an attractive idea. But a constitution that is…
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Winston Churchill gave his maiden broadcast to the United Kingdom as prime minister 80 years ago May 19. It was…
On May 10, 80 years ago, Winston Churchill became prime minister of Britain. Germany had already become the dominant power…
England in the 1640s was shaking apart along many fault lines. The royalists, known as the Cavaliers, fought with King…
Asked what would determine the course of his government, English prime minister Harold Macmillan (1957–63) answered, “Events, dear boy, events.”…
Amid the national conversation — a silly, fashionable term except it sounds like the yak-yaks it mostly is — I…
A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist who lives at the edge of Appalachia ends his every email with…