Martin Di Caro

Martin Di Caro brings 25 years of broadcast journalism experience to the Washington Times. He has won numerous prestigious awards throughout his career in major media markets across the country. Before coming to the Times, Martin was a news anchor at Bloomberg Radio’s Washington bureau. From 2012 to 2017, he covered transportation at NPR member station WAMU 88.5 in Washington, where his work on the yearslong Metrorail crisis earned Martin his second Edward R. Murrow award, which included hosting the radio station’s first podcast, Metropocalypse. Martin worked as a reporter for AP Radio in New York and Washington for eight years starting in 2008. He lives in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of D.C. and his interests include reading history and following his beloved New York Jets. He can be reached at mdicaro@washingtontimes.com.

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In this May 29, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump, left, and his daughter Ivanka Trump, right, watch as former football player Herschel Walker, center, throws football's during White House Sports and Fitness Day on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. The U.S. Senate nomination in a premier battleground like Georgia should be a plum political prize, but a year before Republican voters choose a nominee for the 2022 midterms, they have no clear options. The wildcard is whether football hero Herschel Walker runs and brings the endorsement of former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

History As It Happens: The end of Trumpism?

A political journalist says despite the anger of many conservatives at the GOP's disappointing midterms, it is too early to write off Donald Trump. Published November 14, 2022

In this March 18, 1980, file photo, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker listens to a question as he appears before the Senate Banking Committee in Washington, D.C. The Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. each unanimously voted to adopt the so-called Volcker Rule, taking a major step toward preventing extreme risk-taking on Wall Street that helped trigger the 2008 financial crisis. The rule which states that U.S. banks will be barred in most cases from trading for their own profit under a federal rule is named after Paul Volcker, a former Fed chairman who was an adviser to President Barack Obama during the financial crisis. (AP Photo/Chick Harrity, File)

History As It Happens: When Volcker ruled

Paul Volcker was lionized for defeating inflation in the early 1980s. His biographer says Jerome Powell ignored his lessons. Published November 9, 2022

A poster of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state, hangs on a wall of the Moscow library. (Associated Press/File)

History As It Happens: The tragedy of Russia’s wars

Military historian Antony Beevor's latest book illustrates the violent connections between past and present. Published November 7, 2022

In this Oct. 11, 1918, file photo first lady Edith Wilson, center, and President Woodrow Wilson, left, arrive in New York to take part in the Liberty Day Parade. Woodrow Wilson was more focused on the end of World War I than a flu virus that was making its way around the globe, ultimately sickening hundreds of thousands of Americans, including him. (AP Photo, File)

History As It Happens: Getting Wilson wrong

Most presidents over the past century have echoed Woodrow Wilson's "the world must be made safe for democracy." A leading historian argues our foreign policy has dangerously strayed from Wilson's actual vision. Published November 2, 2022

In this Taiwan Presidential Office photo, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, right, in Taipei, Taiwan, on Aug. 3, 2022. China's Foreign Ministry accused the United States of violating its commitment to the “one-China” principle and interfering in internal Chinese affairs on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, after the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a new bill that could significantly increase American defense support for the island of Taiwan. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP, File)

History As It Happens: America’s Taiwan conundrum

The Washington Times' Guy Taylor visits Taiwan as China escalates its intimidation tactics against the island the CCP vows to reabsorb. Published October 31, 2022

Pat Buchanan, portrayed as anti-Israel, is being used by both Democrats and Republicans to try to win the Jewish vote in the presidential election. (Getty Images)

History As It Happens: Buchanan’s party

Pat Buchanan and his "America First" platform had an enduring influence on the GOP. Did he set the stage for Trump? Published October 26, 2022

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin watches the Vostok 2022 (East 2022) military exercise in far eastern Russia, outside Vladivostok, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. Putin has signaled that he could resort to nuclear weapons to protect the Russian gains in Ukraine - the harrowing rhetoric that shattered a mantra of stability he has repeated throughout his 22-year rule. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

History As It Happens: Flirting with Armageddon

On the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Russian leader is threatening to use nuclear weapons. Khrushchev backed down in 1962. Will Putin? Published October 24, 2022

The gate of the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp with the phrase 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free) stands open in Oranienburg, about 30 kilometers (18 miles) north of Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. On Thursday Jan. 27, 2022 the International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Jan. 27, 1945. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

History As It Happens: When America failed the Jews

A historian who appeared in a new PBS documentary on the Holocaust explains the roots of America's failure to help Europe's Jews. Published October 19, 2022

Kevin Seefried, second from left, holds a Confederate battle flag as he and other insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. A federal judge on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, convicted Kevin Seefried and his adult son Hunter Seefried of charges that they stormed the U.S. Capitol together to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

History As It Happens: The war that never ended

Historian Jeremi Suri traces the violent backlash of the post-Civil War period to today's fight over the future of American democracy. Published October 17, 2022

On loan from Washington &amp; Lee University, the earliest known portrait of George Washington, painted by Charles Willson Peale in 1772, is installed at the Donald W. Reynolds Museum on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018 in Mount Vernon, Va. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

History As It Happens: Mount Vernon and the ‘history wars’

In the second in a two-part series from inside the Washington Library at Mount Vernon, special guests Joseph Ellis and Doug Bradburn talk about interpreting George Washington's 18th century life for a 21st century audience. Published October 12, 2022

George Washington statue at the Mount Vernon Estate. Photo credit: Martin Di Caro / The Washington Times

History As It Happens: Joseph Ellis on George Washington’s legacy

In the first of a two-part series from inside the Washington Library at Mount Vernon, special guests Joseph Ellis and Doug Bradburn discuss the enduring importance of the first president's legacy. Published October 10, 2022

In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, Trump supporters, including Doug Jensen, center, confront U.S. Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington. QAnon conspiracy theory believers were front and center at the Jan. 6 rally in support of Trump’s baseless claims of widespread election fraud as well as the riot that followed. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

History As It Happens: The ‘fake’ populists

Who really stands for the interests of ordinary Americans? An old debate returns to American politics. Published October 5, 2022

Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni gestures flanked by Coldiretti Ettore Prandini, left, prior to speaks during an Italian farmers association's event, at the Sforzesco Castle in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

History As It Happens: From Mussolini to Meloni

Historian Roger Griffin says fascism isn't returning to Italy, but the rise of Giorgia Meloni was an expected outcome in a European-wide illiberal trend. Published October 3, 2022

In this image taken from video provided by the Russian pool television on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin pays his last respect near the coffin of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow Russia. (Russian pool via AP)

History As It Happens: The wars of Soviet succession

Moldova, Georgia, Crimea, and now the rest of Ukraine. Historian Michael Kimmage explains Putin's strategy to reassert Russian dominance in its "near abroad." Published September 28, 2022

A Ukrainian serviceman inspects a kindergarten classroom with a sign &quot;Z&quot; on the door that was used by Russian forces in the recently retaken area of Kapitolivka, Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

History As It Happens: Why annexation could lead to endless conflict in eastern Ukraine

No Ukrainian government would recognize the legitimacy of the Kremlin's sham referenda. Years of swinging between hot war and frozen conflict are the likely result. Published September 26, 2022

President Joe Biden addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, at the U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

History As It Happens: War and the United Nations

The U.N. has a decidedly mixed record of preventing war and promoting global harmony. The war in Ukraine has exposed once more the global body's inherent weaknesses. Published September 21, 2022

FILE - In this June 18, 1956 file photo, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser waves as he moves through Port Said, Egypt, during a ceremony in which Egypt formally took over control of the Suez Canal from Britain. The resignation of the United Kingdom’s ambassador to the United States is a rare instance of a souring in relations between the Trans-Atlantic allies, though there have a few nadirs over the decades. One of the most serious crises to beset London and Washington came at the crossroads of a dying British empire and the exponential growth of America as a superpower in the wake of World War II. In 1956 in the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, Egypt’s pan-Arab leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, nationalized the canal to Britain’s fury (AP Photo,File)

History As It Happens: The queen’s empire

Not everyone is feeling nostalgic for the complicated world Elizabeth II left behind. Published September 19, 2022

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. Published 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. Published September 12, 2022

In this Feb. 8, 2017 photo, a mannequin depicting abolitionist John Brown sits in the restored farmhouse in Dargan, Md., where Brown launched his ill-fated, 1859 seizure of a federal armory in nearby Harpers Ferry, W.Va. The John Brown plaque and roadside marker at the farmhouse don't mention the dazzling array of black entertainers who performed on the same site a century later, during the racially segregated 1950s and early '60s. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

History As It Happens: Resurrecting John Brown

When is political violence justified? Published September 7, 2022