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Tuesday’s Jamaal Bowman Primary Hits Close to Home for Me
Jun 24, 2024
Tuesday’s Jamaal Bowman Primary Hits Close to Home for Me
Jun 24, 2024

I grew up in northern Westchester County, New York. Nearly twenty years ago I came to DC, thinking it’d be for just a few months. Instead, I got swept up in DC’s activist scene and haven’t left the area.

Jun 24, 2024
A Maryland House Race Shows How Not to Cover AIPAC
Jun 11, 2024
A Maryland House Race Shows How Not to Cover AIPAC
Jun 11, 2024

The biggest outside spender in the 2022 Democratic primaries was an unlikely group: the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Jun 11, 2024
How Wine Mogul David Trone Crashed and Burned His Senate Bid
May 19, 2024
How Wine Mogul David Trone Crashed and Burned His Senate Bid
May 19, 2024

Despite setting spending records, Trone couldn't win over Black voters; the harder he tried, the worse things got.

May 19, 2024
The Media Mogul Trying to Buy Baltimore’s Mayoral Race
May 13, 2024
The Media Mogul Trying to Buy Baltimore’s Mayoral Race
May 13, 2024

Baltimore’s mayoral election tomorrow will be shaped by “the single biggest donation to a political campaign in city history,” but search campaign finance records, and you won’t find it anywhere.

May 13, 2024
Republican Donors Quietly Boost Sarah Elfreth over Harry Dunn in Democratic Primary
May 13, 2024
Republican Donors Quietly Boost Sarah Elfreth over Harry Dunn in Democratic Primary
May 13, 2024

AIPAC's super PAC has spent over $4 million on the race for Md.'s 3rd Congressional District

May 13, 2024
Maryland’s Monied Primaries
May 7, 2024
Maryland’s Monied Primaries
May 7, 2024

They're an embarrassment of riches, not in a good way.

May 7, 2024
Larry Hogan’s Dead Chief of Staff
Mar 24, 2024
Larry Hogan’s Dead Chief of Staff
Mar 24, 2024

Before dying in a police shootout, Roy McGrath called for an investigation into Gov. Hogan’s Korean covid test scandal

Mar 24, 2024
That Fleeting Moment the Post Covered a Democratic Socialist Fairly
Mar 15, 2024
That Fleeting Moment the Post Covered a Democratic Socialist Fairly
Mar 15, 2024

All Marc Elrich has to do to get fair coverage is lose.

Mar 15, 2024
Fani Willis' Other Scandal
Mar 8, 2024
Fani Willis' Other Scandal
Mar 8, 2024

Using RICO to Prosecute Black Teachers in Atlanta

Mar 8, 2024
The Washington Post’s Shadow Government
Feb 21, 2024
The Washington Post’s Shadow Government
Feb 21, 2024

As DC was on the verge of becoming majority Black, Post publisher Phil Graham created a "white man's business organization"

Feb 21, 2024
WaPo Owes an Apology to the DC Mayor It Drove From Office
Feb 1, 2024
WaPo Owes an Apology to the DC Mayor It Drove From Office
Feb 1, 2024

When I became a journalist over 15 years ago, I did so to highlight the voices of activists—not top city officials. But things took an unexpected turn in 2014, as the Washington Post sought to end DC Mayor Vincent Gray’s career.

Feb 1, 2024
The Post Won’t Tell Voters David Blair Is a Former Republican
Jul 18, 2022
The Post Won’t Tell Voters David Blair Is a Former Republican
Jul 18, 2022

In the Post’s coverage of a local Maryland race, an interesting word has gone missing, and not by accident. The word is “Republican.” And it refers to the former party of David Blair.

Jul 18, 2022
 

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