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Given your choice of an urban campus in D.C., graduating with a better understanding of its history is extra credit.

"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport." So says Shakespeare's desperate and deceived Gloucester in "King Lear." In the play, Gloucester is desperate because of the vicious blinding inflicted upon him. And he wrongly thinks the source of the wound is his loyal son, Edgar.

This “Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Mark Shields” is an in-person gathering at Georgetown University to bring together Shields’ family, former colleagues, friends, and admirers. We hope you can be with us in Gaston Hall at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, September 27. It will not be livestreamed, but a recording will be available a few […]

Europeans have been known to value style over substance. In Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, they got both.

And more on the fallout from Pres. Joe Biden's "60 Minutes" interview.

It took three months, over 150 buses, and about 6,000 migrants, but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott finally has Democrats rethinking their approach to border security.

Place and get to make up their own minds. colbert king has a new piece in washington post with a little advice. it is entitled, please democrats, no show horses at january 6 hearing. he writed in port. the insurrection story could not be told by members preening for minutes before live cameras, their job is to restrain them sfld and act as a committee. because the january 6 hearings are not a show. the country needs to know who, both in washington and beyond was involved in the events leading up...

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To vote as one of the highest mandates of our democratic tradition. >> the denial of the secret raid is a tragic betrayal of the highest mandates of a more crowded tradition. give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rates. >> that milky speech is known as the give us the bullet speech. which is one of the refrains he repeats over and over. more than 60 years later, people have come up, still, in many places in america being denied the - secre...

Democratic tradition. give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights. >> that mlk speech is known as the "give us the ballot" speech which is one of the refrains he repeats over and over. more than 60 years later, people of color are still in many places in america being denied the sacred right to vote. we are still fighting for these basic rights. as colbert king puts it in his op-ed for "the post" using mlk day and this speech as standards...