House Democrats are pressing Speaker Mike Johnson to restore what they describe as the longstanding bipartisan framework behind the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Act, arguing that a Republican-amended version of the bill undermines both the museum’s original purpose and its legislative foundation. According to a letter led by Congressman John Garamendi alongside House Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández, Executive Steering Committee Members Judy Chu and Debbie Dingell, and 145 additional Democratic Women’s Caucus members and House Democrats, support for the bill now depends on Republicans reinstating the earlier bipartisan approach and pairing it again with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino Act.

The border is Europe’s oldest and most contested artifact. Europe has more international borders per square kilometer than any comparable landmass. It has redrawn them repeatedly — through conquest, treaty, collapse, and negotiation — and carries the scar tissue of every revision. To understand European identity is to understand that the border is not a settled fact but a managed argument, and that the management of that argument is itself the achievement.

Tea’s history begins in a haze of legend, the kind where stories feel half-mythical yet somehow fitting for a drink that has accompanied human civilization for millennia. One tale says the Chinese emperor Shen Nong was resting beneath a tree in 2737 BCE when a few leaves drifted into his boiling water, tinting it with a faint aroma. He tasted the infusion, found it refreshing, and unknowingly sparked one of the world’s most enduring cultural traditions.