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D.C. should again give the green light to right turn on red

15.01.2025 5

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No one’s building a Carter Monument, but look here: It already exists

08.01.2025 4

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Let’s make fake news fun again

26.12.2024 40

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Expel Trayon White, but then confront the beast of D.C. contracting

D.C. Council members were quick and unanimous at their special meeting to deal with the problem that is Trayon White Sr.: Given the choice of...

19.12.2024 10

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Why political chaos in Germany threatens a wobbly world

17.12.2024 20

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Head down, burrow in: How federal workers beat Trump’s cuts

Hoping to save a few hundred million bucks and demonstrate how to shrink the federal workforce, the first Trump administration made an example of a...

11.12.2024 4

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Can’t afford a smartphone? That’s going to cost you.

The gleaming blue booths popped up this year in busy urban spaces such as Dupont Circle, Columbia Heights and downtown D.C., providing convenient,...

05.12.2024 40

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Report from inside the ‘deep state’: We’re not going anywhere

Come, let’s meet the “deep state.” You know, the one Donald Trump wants his attorney general to rein in, dismantle or just plain nuke. By day, they...

27.11.2024 30

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The truth about bike lanes: They’re not about the bikes

Despite its reputation as a liberal enclave, D.C. is not and will never be Amsterdam, Portland or one of those college towns where the streets teem...

20.11.2024 2

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Why football might be Trump’s next ‘cute play’

The first time I ever spoke with Donald Trump, in 1984, I was a reporter at the Miami Herald and Trump was a brash Manhattan developer eager to be...

13.11.2024 3

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A big win for the Blow It Up Party, but what then?

On Tuesday, since it apparently wasn’t already clear enough from the first elections of Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, Americans...

07.11.2024 8

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Some candidates still believe they can get stuff done

Judging by the blizzard of ads on Washington-area TV, the most important contest on next week’s ballots is the House race in the Virginia suburbs...

30.10.2024 6

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In Virginia, playing chicken with an entire city’s votes

In a small Virginia city of 22,000 souls, a three-hour drive southwest from D.C. through pastoral countryside, a mechanical engineer and a bed-and-...

23.10.2024 20

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Democracy woes: When getting indicted wins votes

In the neediest neighborhoods of the nation’s capital, where Ward 8’s D.C. Council member is under indictment on federal bribery charges for taking...

17.10.2024 3

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Hogan vs. Alsobrooks is officially a political time warp

Larry Hogan, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Maryland, won’t vote for Donald Trump for president. In 2020, Hogan cast his ballot for...

12.10.2024 3

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Is it still neat to eat on the street?

10.10.2024 6

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On the Middle East, the moral high ground for colleges is to stand mute

02.10.2024 10

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Alsobrooks won’t ask you to dislike Hogan. Just not to vote for him.

In case you lack a television and internet access, here are the dueling images emerging from a tsunami of ads about the Senate race in Maryland:...

25.09.2024 2

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Meet the GOP’s gift to Tim Kaine and Democrats. If you can find him.

18.09.2024 3

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Want to confuse D.C. voters even more? How about ranked-choice voting?

This November, while the rest of the country decides the future of American democracy, the people of the District of Columbia (who are excluded...

11.09.2024 3

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A new way to treat customers? Annoy them until they go away.

On the sidewalk outside the Dupont Circle CVS, Lady D and Tony, a particularly friendly duo of panhandlers, have positioned their milk crates so...

04.09.2024 20

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Masked protesters, kids’ unmasked book picks: When is anonymity okay?

Effective immediately, protesters who cover their faces while on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond must reveal their...

29.08.2024 10

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Trayon White is no Marion Barry. He’s out of step with D.C.

Bribery charges against the council member will strike some as tragic, others as predictable. D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. helps hand out...

20.08.2024 4

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A different kind of remote work: Two jobs, two checks, one mess

14.08.2024 3

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A D.C. drug lord says he’s back, better than ever. Hold the cheers.

Rayful Edmond’s release from prison after 35 years rekindles questions about the damage he inflicted. Rhonda Johnson makes a statement in D.C. on...

08.08.2024 20

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Those cheap airfares come with a huge cost

Opinion Those cheap airfares come with a huge cost Flights are full, which makes rebooking after delays and cancellations harder than ever. Sorry,...

01.08.2024 2

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Why Southwest’s seating switcheroo is un-American

The move spurns egalitarianism and pushes the idea that only the affluent deserve decent service. Travelers line up to board a Southwest Airlines...

31.07.2024 1

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Larry noodged me for four decades. I’m glad he did.

Larry Rosen’s D.C. pharmacy burned in the ’68 riots. He never got over it, becoming an enduring voice for victims of the violence. Larry Rosen,...

24.07.2024 10

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