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Sep 15, 2025
Until it closed last year, Monarch Novelties was the only souvenir store in Washington, D.C., that sold campaign memorabilia exclusive to the three...
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Jul 1, 2025
This all began a little more than six months ago. My three-year-old daughter and I were driving from our house in Washington, D.C., to her preschool in Northern Virginia. It was a...
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May 20, 2025
About a decade ago, the editor David Samuels wrote a brilliant profile of Ben Rhodes for the New York Times, focusing on the foreign policy advisor’s relationship to Barack...
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May 5, 2025
Let it never be said again that Washington, DC is a city without any native culture. The fact that its professional football team, against all odds, is at last returning to the site...
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Apr 29, 2025
Shirley Hazzard once observed that at a certain age memory protects one from the burden of experience. A vivid scene, with the interval of several decades, becomes little more than a...
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Jan 31, 2025
The grocery store a few blocks from my house in Washington, D.C. was for many years known as the Social Safeway. This tongue-in-cheek appellation referred to the fact that it was the...
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Jan 6, 2025
One of the most famous scenes in F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu takes place on a rat-infested ship. All but two of the vessel’s crew have died...
Sep 15, 2025Until it closed last year, Monarch Novelties was the only souvenir store in Washington, D.C., that sold campaign memorabilia exclusive to the three...
Jul 1, 2025This all began a little more than six months ago. My three-year-old daughter and I were driving from our house in Washington, D.C., to her preschool in Northern Virginia. It was a...
May 20, 2025About a decade ago, the editor David Samuels wrote a brilliant profile of Ben Rhodes for the New York Times, focusing on the foreign policy advisor’s relationship to Barack...
May 5, 2025Let it never be said again that Washington, DC is a city without any native culture. The fact that its professional football team, against all odds, is at last returning to the site...
Apr 29, 2025Shirley Hazzard once observed that at a certain age memory protects one from the burden of experience. A vivid scene, with the interval of several decades, becomes little more than a...
Jan 31, 2025The grocery store a few blocks from my house in Washington, D.C. was for many years known as the Social Safeway. This tongue-in-cheek appellation referred to the fact that it was the...
Jan 6, 2025One of the most famous scenes in F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu takes place on a rat-infested ship. All but two of the vessel’s crew have died...