Opinion: A Con on Every Corner
• April 17, 2025

Once upon a time, before it was cleaned up and Disney-fied, Times Square was a dirty and slightly menacing place whose tawdry appeal drew mostly tourists, attracted by the grittiness […]

Editorial: Liberation Days? 
• April 9, 2025

Trump’s tariffs landed Wednesday like a thunderclap — globalization, as we knew it, over. Markets rattled. Allies stunned. He really did it.  Then came Saturday. Protests surged across towns and […]

Editorial: Et Tu, WaPo?
• March 3, 2025

The hits just keep on coming. Since the installation of the new regime, we’ve seen mass firings with no warning. Unqualified and dangerous people put in charge of every agency. […]

Editorial: Meta Pulls the Plug on Fact-Checking  
• January 21, 2025

Last week, Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced that it would end its eight-year fact-checking partnership with independent American journalists to identify misinformation on its platforms.    […]

Editorial: Heath Care: Change, Yes; Murder, No  
• January 14, 2025

 On Dec. 4, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot to death in cold blood outside a Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan. Even before the arrest of his self-confessed assassin, five […]

Editorial: Make Affordability a Top Priority 
• September 11, 2024

Members of the soon-to-graduate Class of 2025 who wish to live in an apartment in the city may have a rough go of things. While their parents and grandparents may […]

Opinion: How 9/11 Transformed Immigration in America  
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When Americans think of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, they think of the thousands of innocents who died in the […]

Editorial: The Key to Civilization Is Civility  
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Twenty-three years later, we remember the fear and horror of 9/11, but do we recall the days that followed? On Sept. 12, and for weeks afterward, we showed more kindness […]

Editorial & Opinion: We’re Still Here — Let’s Keep It That Way!  
• August 14, 2024

In case you have not heard, we are celebrating 70 years — seven decades — of this publication on October 7th, 2024. The Georgetowner is a proud survivor, a prime […]

Editorial: Scooter Rudeness, E-Bike Excess, Moped Madness 
• July 17, 2024

  In the spring of 2021, Lime scooters and bikes were released in Washington, D.C.   D.C. was the first city to receive Lime scooters.   Spin launched its dockless e-bike system […]