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The mercy that’s missing from this White House

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D.C. deserves better than a political operative as its U.S. attorney

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The D.C. police send Trump an early valentine

26.01.2025 100

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The parade of inaugurations marches on

20.01.2025 5

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Remember MLK’s words as we approach a pivotal Jan. 20

19.01.2025 100

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D.C.’s sports betting no-bid venture was a rotten idea from the start

17.01.2025 3

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What the Bourbon Street attacker was targeting

11.01.2025 10

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D.C. can expect to be in the new U.S. attorney’s crosshairs

04.01.2025 4

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A president for D.C.

01.01.2025 40

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Senate Democrats leave D.C.’s courts in the lurch

29.12.2024 10

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As you consider Kash Patel, remember J. Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro

24.12.2024 100

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Who’s afraid of a public library?

A tragedy occurred this week in a Virginia community about an hour’s drive west of our nation’s capital. No bodies were harmed. There was no need...

14.12.2024 100

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What justice would mean for Reggie Brown

07.12.2024 5

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The beating heart of D.C. home rule

A group of past and present local officials gathered on Nov. 19 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of home rule in the District. To no one’s...

30.11.2024 3

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Trayon White Sr. knows the D.C. Council’s ethics playbook

Within hours of U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras setting a Jan. 12, 2026, trial date in his bribery case Nov. 13, council member Trayon White...

26.11.2024 8

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Every abused child is connected

This week’s story in The Post about the arrest of the director of a D.C. preschool, on charges of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor,...

23.11.2024 20

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There’s never been a transition like this one

A presidential transition has a life of its own, with a beginning, a middle and a full stop when the president-elect is sworn in. Transition team...

16.11.2024 60

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This Veterans Day, D.C. prepares to defend its home rule

Veterans Day is a federal holiday firmly fixed on the calendar. But this year’s observance seems even more fitting, coming on the heels of a...

10.11.2024 4

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Who are we? We are about to find out.

“You aren’t the only one who was praying. God answers all prayers. His answer to you was no. His answer to me was yes. Praise the Lord!” The...

09.11.2024 70

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Kamala Harris has met the moment

The votes haven’t been counted, but it’s not too soon to declare that Vice President Kamala Harris has come through the presidential campaign like...

01.11.2024 3

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Deceptive or delusional? Trump recalls ‘love and peace’ on Jan. 6.

19.10.2024 100

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Why answer prayers with ridicule?

My previous column, “A vanishing hope for peace in the Holy Land,” drew comments from some who jeered and ridiculed the faith of people praying and...

28.09.2024 10

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Donald Trump through the looking glass

Asked about the Jan. 6 insurrection during Tuesday’s presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump said, “I had nothing to do with that...

14.09.2024 30

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The sound of gunfire, endlessly repeating

It’s become a routine: Shots fired. Students and teachers take cover. Police arrive. Dazed students, hands raised, evacuate. Shooter neutralized....

07.09.2024 20

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Close encounters of the Trump-Harris kind

In last week’s CNN interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Dana Bash asked Harris about Donald Trump: “I was a...

03.09.2024 40

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Trump’s shameful belittling of the U.S. military

Returning Trump to the White House would be a disservice not only to the armed services, but also to the nation. Republican presidential nominee...

24.08.2024 200

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My prayer for Donald Trump — and the rest of us

17.08.2024 100

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A rerun of Chicago ’68? Only if Harris lets it happen.

Democrats will hear echoes of their disastrous gathering more than a half-century ago, but they can’t let them determine the future. The 1968...

15.08.2024 30

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The kind of chant only Donald Trump could love

Voters with shared values can’t let the perfect be enemy of the good. Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz arrive at Detroit...

10.08.2024 70

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The bumpy road from the D.C. Home Rule Act to Initiative 83

07.08.2024 20

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Trump is much worse than ‘weird’

His astonishing self-regard has been on full display of late. Donald Trump speaks at the Believers Summit in West Palm Beach, Fla., on July 26....

03.08.2024 100

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The NABJ wasn’t the audience Trump was aiming at

His ignorant, insulting comments were aimed at the MAGA crowds watching from afar. Former president Donald Trump speaks at the National Association...

01.08.2024 70

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We have seen the attacks on Harris before

Donald Trump and his supporters are using racism to paint the vice president as inferior. Vice President Harris speaks at the Eisenhower Executive...

26.07.2024 1

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