This is a great look into the history of D.C. voting rights courtesy of Twitter user kcivey. An article, run in 1978 in the now-defunct Washington Star, outlines the easy time a proposed amendment to the Constitution to allow full representation for D.C. in Congress would have passing. In fact, the text of the amendment would have let D.C. be "treated as though it were a State" without it actually becoming a state. I can't even imagine an amendment to the Constitution ever passing now, let alone one as divisive as D.C. voting rights. But the Washington Star thought differently in 1978. more ›

On February 28, 1978, Elvis Costello was 23 years old and convinced of his own magnificence. His second album — but crucially, his first with the Attractions, the three musicians with whom he'd make his most celebrated records — the furious, paranoid, Aftermath-styled This Year's Model, would be released the following week, and would top the Village Voice and Rolling Stone critics' polls at year's end. At the close of his first U.S. tour, only two months earlier, he'd been thrown out of 30 Rock for aborting his Saturday Night Live performance of "Less than Zero" mid-song to play the broadcast-industry indictment "Radio Radio" instead, a stunt that got him banned from SNL for 11 years. (He was invited back decades later to recreate the moment with the Beastie Boys.) more ›