It's a lot easier to get young people to care about government overreach if you're going for their guts.
Ahead of a public hearing Friday pitting upstart mobile food vendors against sedentary street vendors and old-school sidewalk restaurants, George Farrell — a Washington Times "community" member — settled on a reason to take sides: "propane tanks inside food trucks could easily become explosive devices" and "may pose a terrorism threat."
In his inaugural address, Barack Obama said repeatedly, "We, the people," those key and memorable initial words of the preamble to the Constitution, effectively moving us from 1776 to today.
What an Inauguration Day it was. Countless memes, intimate moments, some fashion, viral videos, a lot of GIFs, and — oh, yeah — maybe some history. Here's your complete recap, with everything you need to know and (mostly) nothing you don't.
We're still more than a month away from Barack Obama's second inauguration, but the planning is well underway — and apparently includes military personnel playing with this huge toy map of Washington, D.C.
It's pretty fantastic, this picture from the Kennedy Center Honors Gala dinner at the State Department last night: Meryl and Hillary are an itsy-teeny bit just like us!
In response to my argument that our nation's capital is not a hip place and never will be, D.C. events space VerdeHouse has started the a Twitter campaign #hipDC that asks people to tweet out all the #hip things about the city. In the spirit of equal time, we are going to list them all here.
Sidwell Friends School, the D.C. school that President Obama's two daughters attend, was evacuated this morning after someone phoned in an anonymous threat.
The FAA denies a report that three planes were put on a collision course, but says they did fly too close to one another thanks to a miscommunication between controllers.
Police closed a Washington, D.C. street thanks to a suspicious package at the Saudi embassy, but the package turned out to be "nothing particularly suspicious" after all.
This morning Washington D.C. residents watched the soon to be retired Discovery shuttle on its planned tour of the city before its final flight to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Virginia annex, where it will sit on display.
The formation of an Occupy Wall Street super PAC by an activist in Decatur, Alabama is sparking a backlash from the movement's organizers in Washington, D.C. and New York City.
The Washington landmark will reopen in November
Jon Lovett wants to be a television comedy writer even though there are no funny people in D.C.
Yesterday's 5.8 magnitude quake damaged the top of the monument
D.C.'s National Mall welcomes the addition of the 30-foot sculpture
How to beat the shutdown blues when the federal government picks up your trash
A suspicious package was found outside Washington
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