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 […]

Muriel Bowser Re-Inaugurated as D.C. Mayor
• January 3, 2019

In getting reelected, Bowser followed in the big footsteps of Marion Barry and Anthony Williams, the only D.C. mayors to win reelection, a feat that not even her mentor Adrian Fenty was able to pull off.