The Latest Breaking News from Ronald Reagan

Gerontocracy: the exceptionally old political class that governs the US

Joe Biden and members of Congress are increasingly long in the tooth – and more and more out of step with a much younger US public

The Guardian - US · Feb 19, 2023

Former President Jimmy Carter enters home hospice care in Georgia

After a series of short hospital stays, the statement said, Carter “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 18, 2023

N. Carolina congressman, briefly senator Broyhill dies at 95

A longtime North Carolina Republican who served briefly in the Senate in the mid-1980s has died

The Independent UK · Feb 18, 2023

Tear down these walls, or get used to a world of fear, separation and division

Europe was made whole in 1989. Now concern about migrant ‘invaders’ is turning the continent, and other global regions, into fortresses

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2023

Mahomes v Hurts: America’s fear of a Black quarterback begins to fade

Super Bowl LVII shows that football is more willing to see Black men as leaders – although that doesn’t apply to other levels of US society, or the NFL

The Guardian - US · Feb 10, 2023

VIEWPOINT 2: This Valentine’s Day, show some love for America

Although the last few years have been difficult for most Americans, there still is much to love about the country President Abraham Lincoln called “the last best hope of earth” and President Ronald Reagan labeled “the shining city on a hill.”

Tribune News Service · Feb 9, 2023

Mrs Thatcher portrait saved from the scrapheap sells for hundreds of pounds

A painting of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sold for £1,100 after being rescued from a rubbish tip.

Evening Standard · Feb 7, 2023

Biden has revived democratic capitalism – and changed the economic paradigm

The president’s domestic successes offer a rebuke to disciples of Reagan: the ‘free market’ has never existed

The Guardian - US · Feb 6, 2023

The GOP's Pitchfork Populism Is Older Than Trump

But it doesn't have to be the future of the GOP or the country.

Reason · Feb 4, 2023

Civil rights legislation sparked powerful backlash that's still shaping American politics

For nearly 60 years, conservatives have been trying to gut the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. As a scholar of American voting rights, I believe their long game is finally bearing fruit.

The Conversation · Feb 3, 2023