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On her 200th birthday, should we ‘cancel’ Susan B. Anthony?
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The famed suffragist owned and flaunted an alligator purse. It makes no sense, however, to vilify her for not having conformed to the moral standards of our time.
Rochester Beacon (https://rochesterbeacon.com/category/letter-from-washington/page/2/)
The famed suffragist owned and flaunted an alligator purse. It makes no sense, however, to vilify her for not having conformed to the moral standards of our time.
Policy institutes in the nation’s capital have distinct ideologies. One thing they have in common: free lectures with free food. Our Washington correspondent wondered: Would their approach to feeding guests reflect their politics?
A former Rochester newsboy who cofounded of one of the country’s most-visited news sites, John Harris has earned an international reputation as a news innovator and astute political reporter.
Blackstone Group executive Wayne Berman has built a highly successful career as a lobbyist and Republican political operative. But the Rochester native’s hometown remains one of his favorite conversation topics.
Former drug addict and prison inmate Halbert Sullivan turned his life around. Sullivan, who grew up in Rochester, founded the Fathers’ Support Center in St. Louis to help break the cycle of poverty. Could his successful program work here?
The second half of our “Made in Rochester” tour of the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., includes a movable school chair, three Kodak cameras, a “candlestick” telephone and a very special red silk shawl.
Visitors to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., can see a number of items—often both beautiful and important—whose roots can be traced to Rochester.
An artifact of the Lincoln assassination illustrates the powerful way real objects can connect us to the history that shapes our lives.
Monument Academy Public Charter School in northeast D.C., one of just a tiny handful of urban charter boarding schools in the country, is still relatively new. The results are impressive, however.
At 35, Rachel Bovard—who grew up in Dansville—has become a leading strategist and voice on the right in America. In a conversation, she reflects on her Rochester-area roots and what life is like in 2019 for a young conservative woman in the nation’s capital.