In “Calhoun: American Heretic,” Elder makes one of America’s strangest and most controversial figures familiar without understating any of his flaws. From Calhoun’s youthful presidential dreams to his acerbic middle-aged reactionism, Elder tracks his subject’s career from the South Carolina upcountry and Yale College to Washington, D.C., interspersing the stories of his political battles in...
Police found a missing 9-year-old from Fayette Township on Monday, after a 48-hour search. Police said they located Jace Landon Lyon near a home off N. Hillsdale Road in Fayette Township safe and unharmed. They found him around 8:50 p.m. on Monday, after following a tip. Jace was last seen on Saturday at approximately 9:30...
This past Fourth of July, I was driving with my brother through Oxon Hill in Prince George’s County, one of the last vestiges of Washington, D.C.’s old go-go culture, now dislocated by gentrification to southern Maryland. My brother kept commenting on the dinkiness of it all: the carryout soul-food restaurants, the clothes lines outside the...