Ward 2 Is Underestimating Trump’s Authoritarianism Threat
• July 27, 2020

According to District Council candidate Katherine Venice, we must all realize that America now is the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and we are all called to stand up in the spirit of John Lewis.

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Pelosi’
• May 28, 2020

Molly Ball’s book is expertly crafted and thoroughly researched, but readers are kept at a remove, being deprived of on-the-record quotes from Pelosi’s family, friends, colleagues and adversaries.

‘A Very Stable Genius’ Authors Tell All
• February 27, 2020

For her monthly “Q&A Cafe” at the George Town Club, TV journalist Carol Joynt interviewed Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker of the Washington Post.

Downtowner
• January 29, 2020

SALON OPERATOR TO CUT BACK Ratner Companies, based in Vienna, Virginia, is set to close 10 percent of around 850 stores in the District and 16 states. The parent company […]

Politics, Impeachment Are Heating Up
• January 16, 2020

The looming impeachment process slowly swallowed up everything else. Formally, that occurred with the delivery, on Thursday, of the two articles of impeachment against President Trump.

IG Testifies About FBI Probe of Trump Campaign (photos)
• December 12, 2019

While concluding that the probe was not motivated by political bias, Michael Horowitz’s report also listed 17 errors in how the FBI sought to carry out surveillance of former campaign advisor Carter Page.

Cummings Manned the Bridge of Justice
• October 18, 2019

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Maryland), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, died at three in the morning on Oct. 17 at age 68.

The Salve of Baseball
• October 10, 2019

For Washington baseball fans who treat the box score as a bible, who live in a city where political bloodletting is a condition not an event, we woke to baseball in a morning made joyful.

Will Local Businesses Be Hit Due to Ross’s Trump Fundraiser?
• August 8, 2019

Billionaire Stephen Ross is holding an upcoming fundraiser in South Hampton, N.Y., for President Donald Trump. The seemingly typical event has raised eyebrows — celebrities’ included — because of Ross’s […]

The Homegrown Terrorism of Mass Shootings
• August 7, 2019

Today there are 31 people dead, who woke up Saturday morning not knowing they wouldn’t make it through the night. But when all the names are named, let’s not call them victims. Let’s call out their names.