Robert Duvall, who won an Oscar for "Tender Mercies" and was nominated for his roles in films including "The Godfather," "Apocalypse Now," and "The Great Santini," has died. He was 95.
In his address to the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 14, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that after the end of the Cold War, the West had embarked upon a "dangerous delusion," thereby weakening its economic, cultural, and political foundations. He also spoke of the "shared Christian faith," and called the U.S. "a child of Europe."
One Republican candidate to succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell introduced himself with an ad that shows a cardboard cutout of the longtime Senate majority leader in the trash.
A slew of utterances by U.S. presidents have entered American's collective consciousness, but the 45 men who have served as commander in chief formulated many felicitous expressions - before, during, and after they assumed office.
There is a shared idea behind all prize programs, and here it is: We get the world we praise.The arc of the future is bent by what we praise in the present.
This Feb. 16, the nation will mark Presidents' Day, a federal holiday Americans have celebrated every third Monday of February since 1971, when Congress, rarely the source of bright ideas, merged the birthdays of the two most legendary American presidents: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio's impressive performance at the Munich Security Conference gives us an alluring glimpse of the president he could be one day.