Veterans Day: A Personal Remembrance
Back in the spring of 2004 — in the days just before and around the time that the World War II Memorial at the...
Did Biden, McAuliffe Glad-Handing Help Flip Virginia?
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...
The Salve of Baseball
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
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...
Will Local Businesses Be Hit Due to Ross’s Trump Fundraiser?
Billionaire Stephen Ross is holding an upcoming fundraiser in South Hampton, N.Y., for President Donald Trump. The seemingly typical event has raised eyebrows —...
Maureen Dowd Party Trashed on Twitter
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.
It often seems that life is unfair when public figures pass away at the end of a long life removed at a distance and...
Luis Alvarez, 9/11 First Responder, Laid to Rest Day Before July 4th
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...
Debate Part 2; Trump in the Zone
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
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...
