Senate Republicans frustrated with a lack of procedure and unfettered spending are poised to delay the passage of the second slate of appropriations bills.

President Biden's landmark CHIPS and Science Act is quietly contingent on funding applicants meeting a series of diversity, equity and inclusion requirements.

Washington, D.C.’s Union Station is supposed to be the “gateway to the nation’s capital.” But after eight years and millions of dollars, it has become one of the nation’s greatest symbols of bureaucratic and regulatory dysfunction.  Nine years ago, the Federal Railroad Administration began jumping through all the legal hoops necessary to redevelop the capital’s […]

On the day before Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado leaves Congress, he became the first Republican in this entire Congressional session to back a Democratic discharge petition.

If you haven’t read The Three-Body Problem, the 2008 novel by the Chinese science-fiction writer Cixin Liu, you’ve probably seen or heard of others reading it — people on subways, people in airport terminals, or President Barack Obama, whose endorsement contributed to the book’s popularity in the United States. The book, a heady and dense […]

In a worst-case scenario, Virginia Woolf said, Renaissance women writers would wind up like Judith, Shakespeare’s sister, who, although she was as clever and talented as her older brother, did not amount to anything. Feeling depressed and rejected, she killed herself.   But Woolf was wrong. Shakespeare had a daughter named Judith. His sister was Joan, […]

In the grand theater of the upcoming NFL draft, as exhaustively covered a meat market as exists anywhere in the sporting world, individual combine performances can dramatically alter the monetary value of a young athlete’s career. Take Ricky Pearsall, for instance, a senior wide receiver from Florida. His performance at the combine turned heads and […]

Uber is a fact of urban life today. But not too long ago, summoning a cab through a smartphone app was a newfangled concept that threatened the status quo of tightly regulated, uncompetitive, unreliable, and often corrupt local cab sectors throughout the country. In Disrupting D.C., Katie J. Wells, Kafui Attoh, and Declan Cullen take […]