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Martin Di Caro

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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Articles by Martin Di Caro

In this Sept. 28, 1982 file photo, Israeli tanks rumble through West Beirut streets, having just left the West Beirut port area. It was a century ago on Sept. 1, 1920, that a French general, Henri Gouraud, stood on the porch of the French residence in Beirut surrounded by local politicians and religious leaders and declared the State of Greater Lebanon - the precursor to the modern state of Lebanon. (AP Photo/Saris, File)

History As It Happens: When Reagan pressured Israel

During the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, President Reagan cut off shipments off cluster shells and pressured Israel to withdraw. Some today wonder why President Biden can't do the same. Published April 22, 2024

Former President Donald Trump speaks with supporters at the Westside Conservative Breakfast, June 1, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. Trump’s claims that absolute presidential immunity and free speech rights shield him from the defamation claims of E. Jean Carroll, a New York columnist, were rejected Thursday, June 29, by a federal judge. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

History As It Happens: Trump v. Founders

Founding-era historians filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing that the former president's claims of immunity have no basis in the Constitution or American history. Published April 17, 2024

Migrants walking on the highway carry a cross that reads in Spanish "Christ Resurrected" during Holy Week as they move through Tapachula in Mexico's Chiapas state, Monday, March 25, 2024. Migrants stranded on the border with Guatemala departed on Monday for Mexico City in what they are calling "The Migrant Way of the Cross" to call for better migratory policies. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)

History As It Happens: Origins of a border crisis

Across Democratic and Republican administrations, U.S. policies have failed to deter migration to the southern border while fueling instability and violence in Central America. Published April 15, 2024

Shamsidin Fariduni, a suspect in the Crocus City Hall shooting on Friday sits in a glass cage in the Basmanny District Court in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, March 24, 2024. The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by the Russian government as citizens of Tajikistan, some of the thousands who migrate each year from the poorest of the former Soviet republics to scrape out marginal existences. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

History As It Happens: Who is ISIS-K?

The obscure group is making international headlines by committing spectacular acts of terrorism. What's its goal? Published April 10, 2024

Palestinians take photos of themselves in front of a mural painting of the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat, right, and late Nasser Abu Hamid, left, a veteran Palestinian prisoner who died from lung cancer in Israeli custody, in preparation of celebration of 58th Fatah anniversary, at the main square in Gaza City, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

History As It Happens: After Arafat

The father of Palestinian nationalism died 20 years ago. Today his movement's aspirations appear as distant as ever from being realized. Published April 1, 2024

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands after a press conference, on Feb. 16, 2024, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool) **FILE**

History As It Happens: Securing Ukraine

Ukraine is losing a war of attrition against the Russian invasion, an analyst says. But Russia cannot conquer Ukraine, either. Published March 25, 2024

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - A body lies on the ground after an overnight shooting in the Petion Ville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

History As It Happens: Anarchy in Haiti

The island nation appears to be in an irreversible slide toward anarchy and violence. What happened to Haitian democracy? Published March 18, 2024

People protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, March 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

History As It Happens: Netanyahu’s war

For decades Benjamin Netanyahu has promised Israelis he would defend their security while seeking peace. As the war in Gaza grinds on, his legacy is in tatters. Published March 13, 2024

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

History As It Happens: After Putin

Knowing how and when Russia's president may be replaced is impossible, but the West must begin preparing now. Can Soviet history be a guide? Published March 6, 2024

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks at a concert marking the 80th birthday anniversary of Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, in Moscow, Tuesday, Feb. 1 , 2011. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)

History As It Happens: Two years of war, Part 2

Historian Michael Kimmage traces the origins of the Russia-Ukraine war to a series of collisions between Vladimir Putin's authoritarian regime and Western institutions, with Ukraine stuck in the middle. Published February 16, 2024