Photo by Ronnie R. 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…

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…