Our veterans affairs reporter looks back on the year.

Published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. On Friday, November 21, as most Americans were prepping for ...

Rather than tell his fellow New Yorkers to lower their expectations of what government could do, the city’s new mayor vowed that “the only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.” ...

Silicon Valley has pioneered lawbreaking like never before, turning illegal ventures into untold billions. Elon Musk helped Donald Trump bring this same approach to Washington. Discussion of AI often ...

First came the shock treatment administered by DOGE, which dispatched teenage sociopaths to hack into the Treasury Department’s payment systems and stop payment to anything deemed “woke,” change the ...

Our John Lewis Writing Fellow shares her favorite stories of the year.

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It turns out that Greenland has one of the largest sectors of state-owned companies in the world: “Add the 11,633 Greenland residents who worked for the government directly in 2023, and the 9.6 ...

Outgoing D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and most Washingtonians wanted to see their beloved NFL football team, the Washington Commanders, in a state-of-the-art stadium. Be careful what you wish for. Only ...