On America’s 250th birthday, while lightning sporadically lapped at the National Mall, I sat on a curb outside of the Willard Hotel. Around me was a scrum of Americans: street preachers and squalling ...

In the early 1960s, long before bluegrass was streamed into the living rooms of genteel NPR listeners or championed by retro-craving hipsters, the place to hear the best hillbilly music around was the ...

Good morning. Mostly sunny today a slight chance of showers this morning and a high around 83. Showers and storms possible overnight with a low near 71. The Nationals host Houston again this evening. ...

The Trump Administration’s Domestic Policy Council released a scathing 162-page report on Monday taking aim at the National Museum of American History. The report argues that the museum “fails in the ...

Paul Yandura and I are cruising through Appalachian farmland on his ATV, mud spraying, twigs smacking the windshield of the camouflage four-wheeler. Over the roar of the engine, he’s talking up his ...

If you’re a Red Line devotee or a Yellow and Green Line party animal, WMATA is unveiling a new merch pop-up you may be excited about. The new collection is designed for Metro’s 50th anniversary and ...

Perhaps none of President Trump’s semiquincentennial celebrations have sparked more discourse than the Great American State Fair. The much-discussed event, which ends tomorrow, started to suffer ...

The more Lisa-Marie Riggins spoke, the more flabbergasted Frank Fahrenkopf became. It was November 2016, and the two were having lunch at the City Club on 13th Street with Lisa-Marie’s husband, John, ...

Before finding refuge in suburban Virginia, Anya and Lera faced personal peril and growing political repression in Vladimir Putin’s Russia—and risked everything for love. On a freezing day in January ...

It’s been a tumultuous time at DC’s beloved arts institution. Is it shuttering for two years? Is it staying open? A deeper look at what’s going on—and what it means to the people who love it most. By ...

Alexis Wilkins, the 27-year-old aspiring country singer and MAGA WAG, has apparently secured a spot singing the national anthem at tonight’s Trump rally, which kicks off the Great American State Fair.

Fairfax County students John Poncy and Allie Blanchet will be performing tonight on Broadway. The pair won best leading actor and actress at the Brandon Victor Dixon Awards, DC’s regional high school ...