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Martin Di Caro

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Martin Di Caro was the host of the History As It Happens podcast at The Washington Times.

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In this Dec. 5, 1931 file photo Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialists, leaves the party's Munich, Germany headquarters. (AP Photo/File)

History As It Happens: Semi-fascism?

Two scholars of political movements contend President Biden's "semi-fascism" remark about MAGA Republicans dangerously distorts history.

September 14, 2022
FILE - In this July 31, 1979, file photo, President Jimmy Carter waves from the roof of his car along the parade route through Bardstown, Ky. Carter is sometimes called a better former president than he was president. The backhanded compliment has always rankled Carter allies and, they say, the former president himself. Yet now, 40 years removed from the White House, the most famous resident of Plains, Georgia, is riding a new wave of attention as biographers, filmmakers, climate activists and Carter’s fellow Democrats push for a recasting of his presidential legacy. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, FIle)

History As It Happens: The Carter comparison

Joseph Biden's first two years in office are reminding Democrats of their last one-term president. Similar to Mr. Biden's rocky start, Jimmy Carter's presidency combined back luck with questionable leadership.

September 12, 2022
Taliban fighters chant slogans during a celebration marking the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

History As It Happens: Taliban redux

One year after the U.S. withdrawal, and a generation after seizing power for the first time, the Taliban returned to Kabul last August after enduring another long war with foreign invaders. Why do Afghanistan's holy warriors continue to mystify the world?

August 31, 2022
ASSOCIATED PRESS Chicago mobster Al Capone, shown here at a football game in 1931, had a Wisconsin hide-out during Prohibition, and it has sold at auction to a bank for $2.6 million.

History As It Happens: The problem with prohibitions

A distinguished historian of American social movements compares the twentieth century crusade to ban booze to efforts today by pro-life activists to outlaw abortion. No matter the issue, prohibitions are difficult, if not impossible, to enforce.

August 10, 2022
The tomb of president Ulysses S. Grant rests in the center of the rotunda of the General Grant National Memorial, Friday, April 22, 2022, in the Manhattan borough of New York. This month marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Civil War hero and two-term president. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

History As It Happens: What we owe Grant

In this year marking the bicentennial of his birth, historians say U.S. Grant deserves overdue recognition in the pantheon of civil rights presidents, alongside Lincoln and LBJ.

August 1, 2022