Becky Krytsal is a staff writer for The Washington Post. MR. AND MRS. DISRAELI By Daisy Hay Farrar Straus Giroux. 308 pp. $27 Unlike most contemporary couples, whose sweet nothings vanish into the ...
Will the British prime minister who has been described as “an adventurer addicted to romance and careless about facts” please stand up? The same prime minister who had first made his reputation as a ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
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DISRAELI by Robert Blake. 819 pages. St. Martin’s. $12.50. In Britain’s political pantheon stands one statue raffishly askew, absurd finger-curls atop a drooping, oversized head, a sardonic smile on ...
"We must stop being the stupid party." So Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal told Republicans assembled at the winter meeting of the Republican National Committee last week. Breaking the stupidity habit, ...
AS AMERICA’S first black president, Barack Obama’s place in history is assured. In the few days since he has left the White House, tributes have deemed him “one of the greatest presidents of all time” ...
IN THE 300 years since Robert Walpole invented the office of prime minister, only three of his 54 successors have made their living by their pen: Disraeli, Churchill and Boris Johnson. Mr Johnson ...
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