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Did Biden, McAuliffe Glad-Handing Help Flip Virginia?
November 6, 2019
•We got lost trying to find Joe Biden and Terry McAulliff in a shopping mall in Sterling, Virginia, Sunday, Nov. 2. Virginia Democrats scheduled the former vice President and leading […]
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.
9/11: The Day of the Fallen and Heroes, No One Else
September 10, 2019
•Every year, we remember the day: September 11. Every year, it arrives, less and less with large and loud ceremony, more and more in the closets of memory, distanced a little, […]
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 […]
Maureen Dowd Party Trashed on Twitter
July 29, 2019
•The dust-up concerned the New York Times columnist’s July 24 party at her N Street home for Times colleague Carl Hulse and his new book.
Sterling Tucker: A Founding Father of Modern D.C.
July 22, 2019
•It often seems that life is unfair when public figures pass away at the end of a long life removed at a distance and their important achievements, and the impact […]
Luis Alvarez, 9/11 First Responder, Laid to Rest Day Before July 4th
July 3, 2019
•At the National Mall by the Lincoln Memorial, they’re going to try to make an impression on the Fourth of July. It’s a big thing, what with the talk, the […]
Debate Part 2; Trump in the Zone
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Kamala Harris was a standout at the Democratic debate on June 27, followed on June 30 by the startling spectacle of President Trump and North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un stepping across the DMZ.
1969: A Year of Triumph and Turbulence
June 19, 2019
•From the first of time, before the first of time, before the first men tasted time, we thought of you. You were a wonder to us, unattainable, a longing past the […]
An Astronaut’s Notes on Apollo
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By Scott Altman Ten years ago last month, I had just returned from my final flight as the commander of STS 125, a space shuttle mission to repair and renovate […]