The "decision to return to the McKinley name" for Alaska's mountain is a "slap in the face of recent efforts to acknowledge ...

The 2015 order, signed by Obama to change the mountain’s name, stated that McKinley had never visited the mountain and had no “significant historical connection to the mountain or to Alaska.” ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...