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Doris Kearns Goodwin is a rare presence on our national stage – an historian with academic cred and pop-culture cachet. Her work, of course, is serious, but she shares it with joy, and sometimes a laugh, as when she made an entrance on “The Late Show Starring Stephen Colbert” on a litter carried by Lincoln impersonators.“It’s fun when a younger person comes up to you and says, ‘You know, my kids saw you on “The Simpsons”’!” Goodwin said.Goodwin, now 81, is renowned for telling the story of Ameri…
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His works are mesmerizing and recognized worldwide – swaths of color, and floating, fuzzy-edged rectangles … all part of the signature vision of the formidable 20th century artist Mark Rothko.“Everybody knows and loves Rothko’s large abstract canvases, but very few people know that he made nearly 3,000 works on paper,” said curator Adam Greenhalgh. Now, an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., hopes to tell a lesser-known Rothko story – the trail of paper works the artist l…
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Earlier this month, President Joe Biden paid a visit to the critical battleground state of Michigan. He came to Detroit – Motor City – to court union voters. Mr. Biden had just won the United Auto Workers’ endorsement, and he was eager to share the spotlight with UAW president Shawn Fain.Fain told the crowd, “You know what the hell’s going to happen if this man’s not president, because we’ve seen what happens. Labor went backwards.” “You all are the ones that brung me to the dance,” Mr. Biden to…
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The Washington Post’s Dan Balz is considered by many the dean of political reporters. Balz is 77 years old – the same age as former Presidents Trump, Clinton and Bush. He says the spotlight on President Biden’s age (81) is understandable, and nothing new.In 1984, when Ronald Reagan – then 73 – was running for reelection, he playfully used his age as an asset when debating his opponent, 56-year-old Walter Mondale: “I will not make age an issue of this campaign,” Reagan said. “I am not going to ex…
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Former Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, is running for the U.S. Senate seat in Maryland that will be left vacant by Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin’s retirement, according to three sources familiar with his decision, complicating a race that Democrats were hoping to win easily. Hogan confirmed his decision in a video he posted to X.“The politicians in Washington seem to be more interested in arguing than in actually getting anything done for the people they represent. Enough is enough,” Hogan said.Mar…
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The Iowa caucuses are tomorrow. But this year, the presidential campaign trail runs through courthouses.Trump’s legal and political calendars collide less than a week before Iowa caucusesIn Washington this past week, attorneys for former President Donald Trump argued in federal court that an ex-president should be immune from prosecution – arguments that seemed to get little love from the judges. Federal judges appear skeptical of Trump’s immunity claimOn Tuesday Trump told reporters, “I feel th…
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California Republican Kevin McCarthy holds a place in history as the first-ever Speaker of the House to be voted out of that position. Historic, but looking at how his tenure began, hardly a shock. Back in January, it took McCarthy 15 ballots – more than any Speaker dating back before the Civil War – to win the gavel. McCarthy said, “When you go into the Senate, it’s like being in a country club – not a lot of people around. The House is like you walk into a truck stop to have breakfast. But th…
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Goodwill Church, in New York’s leafy Hudson Valley, is a special destination for The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta. This was where his family’s faith journey began. “There’s something so deeply familiar about this place, it’s hard to describe,” he said. “My parents always described this church as holy ground for our family.“Tim’s father, Richard Alberta, was once a pastor on this pulpit, after becoming a born-again Christian here nearly 50 years ago. “I don’t know where he sat,” said Alberta. “I don’t…
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The Dubliner is a different sort of Washington monument – an Irish pub on Capitol Hill. There, legendary Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill keeps a watchful eye over the bar, and small talk often strays into politics.With today, November 5th, marking exactly one year until Election Day 2024, “Sunday Morning” invited longtime journalist James Fallows and Washington Post Congressional reporter Marianna Sotomayor for coffee and conversation about how to cover, and consider, the coming marathon for Am…
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Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota has decided to challenge President Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, launching his 2024 campaign on Friday morning in New Hampshire, where he filed to appear on the state’s primary ballot.“I am. I have to,” Phillips told CBS News chief election & campaign correspondent Robert Costa in an exclusive interview for “CBS Mornings” that aired Friday, when asked whether he is making a late entry into the Democratic race.In the interview, Phillips, 54, sai…
5 months ago
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Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, still faces an uphill climb to the House speakership, with at least 10 to 20 Republican members who oppose his nomination, CBS News has learned, based on background conversations over the weekend with six key House Republicans and more than a dozen sources familiar with the deliberations. “At least 10 to 20,” one of the House Republicans told CBS News on Sunday, while another added that that Jordan’s support has grown incrementally in recent days but remains…
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