An assassination attempt. Monumental Supreme Court rulings. A former president convicted of multiple felonies. A shocking debate performance. And an abandoned bid for a second presidential term.
American politics has rarely felt mundane in recent years, but the past few weeks have delivered an unrelenting cascade of developments that have imbued new uncertainty onto the political landscape.
Washington Post reporters fanned out across the country to ask Americans how they view this moment in the nation’s history. Read More...
Jimmy Stewart played Jefferson Smith in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." See more scenes...
'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' By Matt Slovick
WashingtonPost.com Staff This film has been around for almost 60 years and remains the top Washington-related movie. Jimmy Stewart plays Jefferson Smith, the "average Joe" who thinks he can make a difference but runs into men with power and crooked politicians. However, in the typical style of director Frank Capra, the good guy wins. Read More...
Some say Cristiano Ronaldo is passionate on the pitch. Others, however, see that passion as petulance and call him a “crybaby.” Such was the case in the early 1990s when Ronaldo played as a youth for CF Andorinha in Madeira, the island off the coast of Portugal where he was born.
“Crybaby, yes,” former Andorinha teammate Ricardo Santos told Reuters this week about the Real Madrid star’s old nickname. “Because Ronaldo already loved to win like he loves today and when he lost and when other kids didn’t pass the ball to him he used to cry. Read More...