Sign up here to follow this column by email. They came for George Washington on a chilly November night in 2020. Wielding ...

Washington doesn’t impose that duty on the people. He acknowledges their desire, expressed through Congress, to fulfill this ...

In 1789, Washington urged the people of the United States to celebrate “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer.” ...

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The US military has killed scores of people — 83 and counting — in unprecedented military strikes on alleged drug boats.