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It Didn’t Start on Jan. 6: Brief History of Terrorist Violence at Capitol Jan. 6, 2021, was not the first act of terrorism inflicted at the U.S. Capitol. Pictured: Then-Rep. Kenneth Roberts, D-Ala., who was shot in the leg by Puerto Rican nationalist terrorists in the House of Representatives on March 1, 1954, is carried down the steps of the Capitol building on a stretcher and taken to a nearby hospital. Four other lawmakers were also injured in the shootings. (Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images) Commentary By Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, is a widely experienced int...

Penélope Cruz and Christian Bale in "Captain Corelli's Mandolin." Universal Rotten Tomatoes Score: 28% Synopsis: An Italian officer (Nicolas Cage) is torn between loyalty to his country and his love for a local fisherman's fiancé (Penélope Cruz) as he occupies a Greek island during World War II. Bale appears in the film as Mandras, the fisherman who leaves his love behind to fight the war on the mainland. Bale played Mandras in "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" (2001). Rotten Tomatoes Score: 28% Synopsis: An Italian officer (Nicolas Cage) is torn between loyalty to his country and his love for...

Stocks drive higher, brushing aside worries about U.S. stability Trader Robert Charmak works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in New York. (Nicole Pereira/New York Stock Exchange via AP) Published January 15. 2021 10:56AM  David J. Lynch, The Washington Post Get the weekly rundown Email* Submit Stock prices have soared for months in defiance of an ailing, pandemic-wrecked economy. Now they seem impervious to something even more disturbing: the erosion of American democracy. Last week's shocking events, when an American preside...

Peter Dazeley / Getty Images These classic books tell how modern capitalism in Europe and the US changed from a system that manufactured actual products into a financialized trading desk for credit derivatives and leverage. They also describe how modern inequality developed. And they are all absolutely riveting. Fifty years ago, capitalism in the West was based on manufacturing which provided well-paid, lifelong jobs and close to full employment. By the 1970s and 1980s that system was carrying a layer of credit and debt that made it more lucrative for banks to ex...

Windmill Books Writer Liaquat Ahamed tells the story of the crash of 1929 told from the point of view of the central bank chiefs of the US, Britain, France, and Germany. It's a fantastically detailed personal account — based on letters and diaries — of the men who controlled the world's currencies during the historic financial crisis that continues to dominate how we think about economics today. The power of the drama lies in the book's gradually unfolding revelation that those in charge of the great banks of the day did not themselves truly understand how capitalism worked (even though m...