On Feb. 22, we celebrate the birthday of our first president, George Washington. I like to take this occasion to reflect on ...

Americans are not as fragile as President Trump seems to believe. They can survive the hard lessons about this country. Even ...

In the new History Channel documentary series “Thomas Jefferson,” America’s third president claimed that he had a plan to ...

In the optimistic missive, Washington extols the revolutionary spirit of the American people—even in defeat—and makes a rare ...

Washington progressives are seeking to redesign the state flag and remove George Washington from the flag, calling the ...

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, ...

As we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who George Washington was. That kind of national amnesia isn’t ...

The conflicts of popular factions are the chief, if not the only inlets, of usurpation and Tyranny,” the first president ...

New Jersey backed George Washington twice. Washington received all six of the state’s electoral votes in 1789.  New Jersey gave six of their votes for ...

George Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977.

A 40-year-old Spokane man died when he lost control of the car he was driving, hit a retaining wall and rolled Saturday in ...