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60th Inaugural: A Day That Was All Trump
January 21, 2025
•President Donald Trump was sworn in yesterday as the 47th President of the United States at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol a minute and a half past noon. The […]
New Release: The Georgetowner’s Peggy Sands’ Primer on Immigration Basics
November 18, 2024
•By Edward Segal Immigration, a hot-button issue in the presidential election that President-elect Donald Trump said would be a priority in his second term, is the focus of The Georgetowner […]
January 6, One Year On: The World Is Watching
January 6, 2022
•On this day, one year past, the sovereign people of the world’s oldest constitutional republic pause to reflect on the horrific events of January 6, 2021, the single most traumatic […]
Bowser Joins Protesters, Pushes Back at Trump (photos)
June 7, 2020
•Mayor Bowser strolled through the earnest and sometimes festive crowd near the St. Regis hotel and St. John’s Church on June 6, speaking briefly at the corner of 16th and Eye Streets NW.
Georgetown Rector Gassed, Forced Off Lafayette Square to Make Way for Trump
June 2, 2020
•The Rev. Gini Gerbasi was at her old church to protest George Floyd’s death. Her account of her experience on June 1 launched a Twitter hashtag: #aforcetobereckonedwith.
4th Women’s March in D.C. Brings Out Many Faithful (photos)
January 19, 2020
•This year’s Women’s March coincided with the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave and guarantees women’s Constitutional right to vote.
Profs & Pints: Understanding the Mueller Investigation
February 11, 2019
•Profs and Pints presents: “Understanding the Mueller Investigation,” with Randall D. Eliason, law professor, white-collar crime expert, Washington Post columnist, and former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia […]
Venezuelan Embassy in Limbo
February 6, 2019
•The seeming deserted building posted signs that read “no Consular Service until further notice” and a note to postal workers and delivery services asks them to ring the door bell and wait for a response.
A State Funeral Illuminates the Life of George H.W. Bush and America
December 6, 2018
•State funerals are high and mighty, sometimes surreal occasions, solemn and full of formality, and, contrarily, stretched to the limits of theatrical and historical high drama. For such an effect, the […]
A Not So Surprising Election Outcome Sets Us Up for 2020
November 7, 2018
•It’s over. The hurricane midterm—once in a different political landscape predicted to take on the proportions of a blue wave—has come if not entirely gone. The election—at times feared or […]