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Michael Schaffer

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What’s Really Driving Trump’s Moves in Venezuela and Greenland

08.01.2026 50

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A Shutdown Reality Check, From 1 Federal Worker

03.11.2025 6

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

18.10.2025 10

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The Bougie Fallout of ICE’s Crackdown in DC

21.09.2025 10

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

22.08.2025 7

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

14.08.2025 4

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

05.08.2025 5

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Even the Obit Writers Are Jumping Ship at The Washington Post

24.07.2025 8

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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 6

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

15.07.2025 9

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

12.07.2025 7

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

07.07.2025 9

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

14.06.2025 8

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

01.06.2025 8

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Biden, Fetterman and Why Staffers Might Start Breaking Their Silence

17.05.2025 8

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How Donald Trump Revealed Jeff Bezos’ True Self

25.04.2025 4

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

19.04.2025 6

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

21.03.2025 8

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Why the Media Whiffed on the Missing Congresswoman With Dementia

14.03.2025 10

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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 7

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

08.02.2025 10

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

25.01.2025 5

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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 9

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