Capitol Hill Watch: Short-Sighted Schumer on SCOTUS
• April 10, 2017

Today saw the return of the “nuclear option.” Here’s what brought us to this point — and is the option really “nuclear”?

A Sense of Community in the Hullabaloo?
• April 6, 2017

A lot of our daily political and media diet these days is damning or ridiculous — often both.

On the Home Front: Georgetown Basketball, D.C. Statehood
• April 5, 2017

After 13 seasons, coach John Thompson III of Georgetown University is gone. He had some good seasons, but in college basketball your worth and value seem to be determined by […]

Jack Evans Report
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There was a fair amount of uneasiness in the region when Donald Trump won the presidency last November. In particular, while he promised on the campaign trail to invest $1 […]

‘Missing Teens,’ Missing the Point
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We are living in a time when our concepts of news, information, fact and fiction are being undermined by rapidly advancing communications technology. The culprits are usually one form of […]

Nothing Quite Like St. Patrick’s Day
• March 27, 2017

To many of us, the Irish — always visible and deep in our national memory — are about words and music.

Support for the Arts in the Time of Budget Cuts
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The theme of defunding or making cuts in federal programs that support the arts and artists has been a steady drumbeat for the conservative right over the years.

All About Politics: Statehood Con, Ryan’s Blarney, JTIII
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Times are tough for D.C. statehood, affordable health care and Georgetown basketball.

How Can We, the People, Unite?
• March 2, 2017

You will find all kinds of references to you, the people, we the people, us, again we, the moment belongs to you, your country, the people, we are one nation. There […]

$500,000 to Protect Convicted Immigrants?
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On Monday, Jan. 23, the D.C. government began allocating $500,000 of taxpayer money for lawyers to prevent immigrants convicted of serious felonies from being legally deported. The special fund also […]