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Activists Are Targeting an Elite Law Firm for Helping Trump Undercut the Election. Good.

Jones Day is leading the President’s legal fight. Should its attorneys get to keep their reputations?

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Guest List: 5 People We’d Love to Hang Out With This November

A monthly roundup of people we’d like to have over for drinks, food, and conversation

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Ted Yoho, It’s Been a Week and You Still Haven’t Apologized for Loving Your God, Your Country, and Your Family.

Politics, Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Humor | 5 months ago

Writing Through the Pandemic: Judith Viorst and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad President

The children's author, poet, and longtime Washingtonian has a thing or two on her mind.

Donald Trump, Republicans, pandemic, writing | 6 months ago

Writing Through the Pandemic: Memoirist Andrea Jarrell on Helping Her Father Tell His Story

"My father needs me. So why don't I call?"

Coronavirus 2020, First Person, pandemic, writing | 7 months ago

What Pioneering Former Presidential Candidate Shirley Chisholm Taught Me About Blackness

An old photo at the Hamilton Hotel threw me back in time to memories of my mother's friend.

First Person, Black Lives Matter, Essays, Melva LaJoy Jones | 7 months ago

Writing Through the Pandemic: Novelist Carolyn Parkhurst on Making Space

"When you come to the end of it, what would you like to be able to say you’ve done?"

Coronavirus 2020, First Person, pandemic, writing | 7 months ago

Writing Through the Pandemic: Poet Kyle Dargan on Coronavirus’s Painful Truths

“There was a decade, maybe two, when the city seemed a good idea . . .”

Coronavirus 2020, pandemic, writing, Writing Through the Pandemic | 7 months ago

Writing Through the Pandemic: Novelist Susan Coll Considers Her Options

Thank you for asking how my writing is going! All is well!

Coronavirus 2020, First Person, pandemic, writing | 7 months ago

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Washingtonians Are Making Poignant Art About Quarantine

You sent us Tiger King embroidery, political graphics, and Post-It calligraphy.

Coronavirus 2020, Art, COVID-19, Quarantine | 7 months ago