On the last weekend of April 2011, two things happened in Washington D.C.: the annual White House Correspondents Dinner and the decision to raid Osama bin Laden’s compound. This is the story of how both transpired.

An artifact from the height of the uproar:

Behind the tawdriest of headlines, there’s a woman I wouldn’t mind bringing home to mom.

Lessons learned about Washington from investigating how the “grand bargain” fell apart.

Retracing the early economic steps of the Obama administration.

Former Bob Ney, Mark Foley and William Jefferson underlings provide a street-level view of D.C. opprobrium.

Deep Throat, unmasked.

A profile of Maine’s two U.S. senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins.

A look at the legislative lobbying efforts of Michael Bloomberg’s $7 billion-per-year company. While the mayor has no specific day-to-day role at Bloomberg LP, he maintains “the type of involvement that he believes is consistent with his being the majority shareholder.”

A profile of Republican Eric Cantor: six-term congressman, new House majority leader, highest-ranking Jewish elected official in American history.

“For the first time since the Civil War, the United States has a political party that is ideologically cohesive, disciplined, and determined to take power, even at the cost of disrupting the political system.”

A quasi-oral history of the party that was JFK’s 1961 inauguration.

A interview with John Pistole, head of the TSA.