Two sons of wealth, born to lead, Robert Swan Mueller III and Donald John Trump, born 22 months apart in New York City, also come from different planets. In scenes from their lives, we look at the starkly different choices they've made.
They worked for the candidate who promised to drain the swamp. Now they stand accused of behaving like the ultimate swamp creatures. Inside the Manafort money machine.
The final flip through the old Rolodex, which came with me through six newsrooms at the Miami Herald, two at The Washington Post and one foreign bureau too. That Trump card dates from my first interview with him, in 1983.
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I deleted an earlier tweet about campus journalism at the University of Virginia because it didn't meet Washington Post social media standards. Its tone was inappropriate and snide, so it doesn't deserve to remain here.
Traitor? Whistleblower? Or is the Discord leaker a new kind of danger: “digital generation insider threat” — leakers who seek not to cause political chaos, but rather to live online transparently, with little regard to rules they consider old-fashioned
Trump visiting a new civil rights museum seemed like a good reason to come back to Jackson, Mississippi. “What have you got to lose?” Trump asked last time he was here. People here tell me they now have an answer to his question.
In a Republican-controlled Virginia county, false accusations of election fraud push the entire county elections staff into quitting, leaving the jobs for the GOP to fill. via
@nbcnews
Post exclusive: The Trump administration entrusted the war against opioids to a 24-year-old who had puffed up his resume and had zero experience with drug policy or law enforcement.
Dan Snyder wants his fellow NFL owners to protect him against any legal liability if he sells his Commanders franchise. The other owners are so annoyed by the demand that they’re talking about summarily stripping him of his team.
Peggy Cooper Cafritz is dead. She was the rare politician who spoke her mind, public opinion be damned. She housed a constant stream of kids who had no other place to thrive. Instead of whining about the way things were, she did something about it.
Although President Trump has positioned himself as a general leading the counterattack in the War On Christmas, it turns out he spent much of his life on the Happy Holidays side -- and even refused to allow a Christmas tree in one of his NYC buildings.
How Abe and Japan became vital to Moon’s Unification Church—and how Church members would knock on people’s doors and tell them ‘your dead loved one wants you to send money to the Unification Church so your loved one can be elevated in the spirit world’
Is the United States headed for civil war? There’s good evidence that violent conflict is imminent or already underway, but also good arguments that the threat now is lower than before the Jan 6 attack. Here’s a look at where we stand and why.
When
#MauryWills
was on the Dodgers with Sandy Koufax, they would sometimes open each other’s mail. Wills would toss out the most anti-Jewish ones sent to Koufax and Koufax would dump the most anti-black ones sent to Wills. Wills died last night. The obit:
#VinScully
, the greatest baseball announcer of our era, is dead. He earned trust not through longevity but by trusting his audience. He didn’t engage in hype. He trusted his audience to appreciate an intelligent account. He even quoted a bit of the Bard.
Washington CityPaper lives. They found every journalist's dream -- a wealthy owner who commits to being hands-off. It may not be a business model, but if it means survival and zesty local coverage, that's great even for its competitors.
Sunday brings the sad death of Outlook, The Post section where reporters present insights from their beats. Among my dozens of Outlook pieces: cults, Germany, Trump, baseball, radio, truth, Trump, Virginia politics, Marion Barry, race in DC, Trump…
As globalization, polarization, the rise of social media and a collapse of trust left many feeling betrayed by their governments, torn from their careers and alone in their communities, nationalist solutions arise in country after country
From passion to pariah: How and why Washington fell out of love with the Redskins/Commanders (it's Snyder, yes, and a bunch of interesting other factors too)
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Soviet communism brought a democratic wave, a tide of authoritarianism is sweeping the globe…
How the Biden administration's refusal to order federal workers back to the office has turned downtown Washington into a ghost town of empty offices, shuttered storefronts and severely diminished city tax coffers.
The ‘genius’ of Trump: What the president means when he touts his smarts. “He needed to be stroked all the time and told how smart he was. Every decision process was clouded by his sense that he knows more than anybody else."
Elián González, who escaped from Cuba on a raft at age 5, becoming the subject of an international custody battle, is about to become a member of Cuba’s legislature.
Font Wars at Foggy Bottom: The State Department falls out of love with serif fonts, bizarrely picking Calibri over Times New Roman. For font aficionados, it's the equivalent of choosing mud over clean water.
At Duke, the sensitivities of hedge fund zillionaires take precedence over free exchange of ideas. Kids who work on the student paper are banned from a course on hedge funds....
NPR Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg was friends with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Did that slant her reporting on Ginsburg and the court? The Post's Roxanne Roberts on the reporter and the justice....
The president wanted to borrow a masterpiece of Impressionist painting. The museum offered him a gold throne instead. Really. The Post's Paul Schwartzman tells the tale.
After 81 years, it’s Parade halt—today is the last time Parade magazine comes with the Sunday paper. I’ll miss the annual survey of How Much People Make and especially the knowledge that readers of nearly any Sunday paper in the country are reading the same mag.
A kinder, wiser and more generous colleague could hardly be imagined. Donald P. Baker, who chronicled Virginia politics for The Post, dies at 90. Here's my piece on his role in the film "A Perfect Candidate:"
News organizations like The Post spend millions to field foreign correspondents who live for years at a time in the countries they cover. The result is powerful stories like
@myhlee
's journey through the generations to meet her Korean great-grandfather
I love the US Mail tracker. It shows a package was to arrive here in Washington today. The envelope left Fenton, MO, Tuesday, got to Hyattsville, MD Thursday and was at a DC post office Friday. A few hours later, it was in Anaheim, Calif. Current status: “Moving through network.”
For a few years, I wrote a regular column for the Magazine. It was my first refuge from the daily early in my Post career. Its editors were among the most thoughtful at the paper. They taught me much about storytelling. They told Washington's story with grace, humor and verve
Post Obituary: James Caan, the son of a butcher who fled Nazi Germany, was dubbed “Killer Caan” for using his fists in self-defense on the streets of New York. He never lost his street-wise edge & played hot-tempered Sonny Corleone in ‘The Godfather.’
In crime-rattled Washington, surging violence means empty football fields, people driving to neighbors’ houses instead of walking, and shops locking up their wares.
D.C. prosecutors dropped charges against 67% of the people D.C. police arrested last year -- double the rate of declined cases vs. 8 years ago. The US Attorney blames weak arrests and a lousy crime lab. Police chief says "that's BS."
Alan Rubin, founder of the Biograph Theater, the Georgetown art house where you put a token in a turnstile to enter, is dead at 85. The Biograph, inevitably now a CVS, showed great foreign flicks, weird cult stuff and, to pay the rent, afternoon porn.
How opponents of masking and covid-related restrictions have changed local and state laws to stop public health officials from responding to the next pandemic
Tucker Carlson: I hate Trump ‘passionately.’ (Not surprising. Few broadcast firebrands believe what they preach. Limbaugh didn’t: “I am addicted to self-praise. People say, ‘You really believe the stuff you say?’ That’s for you to figure out.”)
NBC4 anchor Doreen Gentzler retires. Why it matters: For many years, Gentzler and longtime co-anchor Jim Vance drew more viewers in the Washington area than CNN, Fox News and MSNBC combined in prime time.
Frank Howard, the Washington Senators’ ‘Capital Punisher’ and the greatest slugger in DC history, is dead at 87. The Post's Matt Schudel has this obituary of the man who "stood out on the baseball diamond like a redwood."
Their school erased the story these students had dug hard to report, so they published it again, on their own site. Now student journalists can stand up against school administrations and get the story out to readers.
Read The Post's Steve Hendrix on the quiet of Christmas at the National Arboretum.
Still, still, still
One can hear the falling snow
For all is hushed
The world is sleeping