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Michael Schaffer

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In D.C., the Arc de Trump Goes Up as the Local Workforce Shuts Down

18.10.2025 20

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The Bougie Fallout of ICE’s Crackdown in DC

21.09.2025 100

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Why Washington Residents Aren’t Flooding the Streets to Protest Trump

22.08.2025 20

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Donald Trump Took Over DC’s Police. Why Is the City’s Mayor So Zen?

14.08.2025 20

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Trump’s Slew of Federal Layoffs Is Benefitting at Least One Industry

05.08.2025 20

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Even the Obit Writers Are Jumping Ship at The Washington Post

24.07.2025 4

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Who’s Happy About Trump’s Call to Restore 'Redskins'? Lefties Who Want to Squash the Stadium Deal.

22.07.2025 3

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Event Planners Are Cancelling on Trump-Era Washington. Is This a Sign of Things to Come?

15.07.2025 5

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Is Trump Using an Obscure Architecture Board to Fire Jerome Powell?

12.07.2025 30

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An Elderly Lawmaker’s Staff Keeps Walking Back Things She Tells Reporters. Should They Keep Quoting Her?

07.07.2025 4

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The Last Time DC Had a Military Parade No One Raised a Ruckus. What’s Changed?

14.06.2025 40

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‘Completely Unworkable’: Sculpture Experts Say Trump’s $34 Million Statue Garden Has Major Problems

01.06.2025 200

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Biden, Fetterman and Why Staffers Might Start Breaking Their Silence

17.05.2025 60

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How Donald Trump Revealed Jeff Bezos’ True Self

25.04.2025 20

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DC Isn’t Becoming a State. But It Could Become Maryland.

19.04.2025 20

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They Were Raised to Serve America. MAGA Sees Them as Its Enemies.

21.03.2025 40

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Why the Media Whiffed on the Missing Congresswoman With Dementia

14.03.2025 20

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Think Trump’s Kennedy Center Will Be All Kid Rock and MMA? You Haven’t Met Paolo Zampolli.

22.02.2025 5

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‘Are We Detroit Now?’: Trump’s Cuts Panic Washington

08.02.2025 20

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‘My Mood Is Ecstatic’: The One Thing Cheering Up All of DC

25.01.2025 20

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‘Dark Money’ Is Tainting Washington Think Tanks. A New Report Shows It’s Worse Than You Think.

COLUMN | CAPITAL CITY ‘Dark Money’ Is Tainting Washington Think Tanks. A New Report Shows It’s Worse Than You Think. Foreign governments are...

03.01.2025 40

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Inside the Demise of DC’s Most Hated Political Watering Hole

Column | Capital City Inside the Demise of DC’s Most Hated Political Watering Hole What the civility-promotion industry can learn from the death of...

21.12.2024 3

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The Jan. 6 Verdict Is In: The Rioters Lose, Even If Trump Pardons Them

COLUMN | CAPITAL CITY The Jan. 6 Verdict Is In: The Rioters Lose, Even If Trump Pardons Them While defendants may sneer and defense lawyers may...

14.12.2024 100

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Trump Won Less Than 50 Percent. Why Is Everyone Calling It a Landslide?

23.11.2024 300

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The Resistance Is Not Coming to Save You. It’s Tuning Out.

16.11.2024 100

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The Post’s Non-Endorsement: Poor Timing, Worse Message

26.10.2024 100

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The New Trump Movie Is Scaring Both MAGA and the Resistance

12.10.2024 80

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What Dictators, Corruption and Threesomes Have to Do With a Lawsuit That Could Kneecap Fox News

05.10.2024 90

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After Project 2025, Knives Are Out for Heritage — On the Right

14.09.2024 100

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Trump’s Latest Move to Avoid Abortion Is His Strangest One Yet

30.08.2024 2

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Right on Red: The Culture War Comes for Traffic Lights

17.08.2024 80

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Max Boot Called Trump a Foreign Asset. Now His Wife Is Indicted for Just That.

02.08.2024 2

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