News + Politics
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Pink Bunny
My partner and I, the good aunts that we are, recently agreed to host two of our little nieces overnight while their parents took a...
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Outside the Box
Last night I got dumped by my loft. My one, true loft. The loft of my life. I was in Massachusetts for the weekend, inhaling...
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A Rodeo Hate Crime
Hyper-macho men chase, harass, and brutalize terrified victims. They do it simply for their own amusement, or because they are addicted to the rush of...
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Adult Zone Shut Out
When it comes to entertainment, Americans look to a variety of sources. Those who live in the Washington area and have an affinity for baseball...
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This Man's Army
By 71, a thoughtful person should reach a point where he has learned a thing or two. One thing Keith Kerr has learned is that...
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Booby-Gazing
It felt so stereotypically lesbian: My partner and I saved our money, conspired with a travel company, got our documents in order, wrote some big...
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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Goes to War
Today, the Department of Defense can offer a count showing that military operations related to invading Afghanistan and Iraq -- operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi...
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Grand Old Protestors
There's been a lot of talk about elderly protesters lately. Women, specifically. From Kansas. Midwestern, blue-rinsed, female Medicare-recipients marching with U.N. flags. It's a hot...
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Setting the Course
Boston may have gotten the Democrats, and New York the Republicans, but Washington hosted a major political conference of its own last weekend as the...
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An Office of One's Own
Wednesday, Sept. 8, was a gray day in Washington. Among Mayor Anthony Williams's announcements at that day's routine press briefing were what flood preparations the...
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Politics of Interpretation
Same-sex marriage has taken center stage in the 2004 presidential election. The Republican effort to amend the Constitution to prevent same-sex marriage from taking root...
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Charmed, I'm Sure
It's that time of year: I make my annual trek to Somewhere in the Heartland -- the exact destination varies each year -- and I...
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A Changing Rehoboth
When I tell anyone not from the mid-Atlantic region that I vacation and plan to retire in Delaware, the response is usually, ''Why?'' My two...
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Fun in the Sun
One day in early June, I was sitting on one of the West Side piers, and summer felt like a conductor's hands poised in mid-air...
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Rating the Runners
When imagining the workings of a political machine in the heart of Washington, D.C., one might conjure intrigue, power plays and ruthlessness. Instead, picture a...
