Washington

About 230,000 Washington Democrats turned out to caucus across the state in March 2016, while 1.4 million cast a ballot in the May presidential primary. Hillary Clinton, who went on to become the Democratic nominee, won the non-binding Democratic primary that year. Of the 1.4 million ballots cast, more than 802,000 ballots were cast by Democrats, even though their vote didn’t count. … [Read more...] about Bernie Sanders to campaign in Washington ahead of primary

She serves the tea about George Washington in "You Never Forget Your First": he didn't have wooden teeth (he wore false teeth taken from slaves and forged from sculpted chunks of ivory from elephants, hippos and walruses), there was no cherry tree and he was a wigless ginger. We may never "forget our first," as Coe's witty title suggests, but we certainly aren't remembering him as he actually was. (She lingers over how obsessed previous biographers have been with Washington's athletic masculinity, his thighs in particular; the most famous ones describe them as "muscular," able to grip a horse's flanks "with ease" and "well-developed" -- an assessment that Coe writes seems evident from the portraiture of the age, even if the lingering historical attention seems overly lavish.) … [Read more...] about Nearly everything you thought you knew about George Washington is wrong

By the end of his second term, President Washington was stung by relentless attacks in the press and alarmed by growing partisan bitterness. Fearful for the country's future, he harnessed the most famous team of ghostwriters in history to flesh out his hard-won wisdom from a half century in war and peace. James Madison and Alexander Hamilton were sequentially summoned to draft the farewell in secret, even as both schemed to create opposing political parties, against Washington's wishes. … [Read more...] about George Washington’s farewell warning

In theory, Trump might have developed an economic theory that Amazon is inappropriately benefitting from public policy, and have drawn critical conclusions about the journalism at the Post, and it is merely a coincidence that the same person, Jeff Bezos, owns both businesses. In practice, Trump makes no pretense of obscuring any connection between the two. When he lashes out at the Post’s coverage, he segues seamlessly to Amazon. Trump has done this over and over. He has done it on Twitter: … [Read more...] about Trump Is ‘Obsessed’ With Amazon Because He Wants to Crush the Washington

Giving up presidential power every four or eight years makes America special. The power to choose our leaders is why thousands of superfans in red hats wait for hours in the cold or rain to see the president today while others cheer for a presidential hopeful seeking to win with a blue voter wall.  … [Read more...] about Presidents Day: Why fangirls loved Washington and Lincoln