Vince Coyner

Sex, sexual ambiguity, race, incompetence, warmongering, and foreign interventions. While those are familiar issues in 2024, surprisingly—or perhaps not—they’re merely echoes of earlier times…like the election of 1800!The presidential…

In ancient Egypt, pharaohs were considered gods. Egyptians believed that when a pharaoh died, he would continue to lead them from the beyond, which partially explains why they had such ornate tombs. Beginning 2,600 years ago, Japanese…

I would argue that, aside from 1860, 1984 was the most important election in American history. Ronald Reagan was running against Jimmy Carter’s vice president, Walter Mondale. At the end of the Carter administration, America was…

America’s Founding Fathers were nothing short of extraordinary. Never before had a group of men come together to do things that would so change the arc of human history. To a man, it’s likely that they agreed with Sir Isaac Newton’s adage…

They say history repeats itself. Properly forewarned, it doesn’t have to. As Americans prepare to write a pivotal history for the ages this November—one way or another—it might be helpful to take a quick look at an earlier moment in…

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction”—Ronald ReaganWhen I grew up, Great Britain was exotic. There were the red telephone booths, Buckingham Palace, black cabs, and, of course, the Bobbies (police) and the…

In 1998, Elon Musk was at Zip2, his startup, which helped put newspapers across the country—including the New York Times—on the Internet. Then, the nascent Internet was a sliver of what it is today, but unsurprisingly, Musk was on the…

On New Year’s Eve 1999, I was tending bar at Outback Steakhouse in DC. As midnight rolled through each time zone, celebrations from each city were shown on TV. At 6:00, I looked up, and what I saw would change my life. It was Paris, and I…

Once, when we were free, we were the greatest nation on earth; now, we are a small nation with a big government. If he has the courage and vision, Trump can reverse that.Now is a good time to think about this because last week marked the…

Forty years ago, after the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, I remember watching ABC anchor Frank Reynolds violently slam his fist on the desk when he was given some conflicting information about the president’s fate. The ABC brass…