Thomas Sweatt torched D.C. for decades and was finally jailed for killing one person. During a year-long correspondence from prison with a reporter, he confessed there were more.

An encyclopedic evisceration of the NFL owner and former Six Flags chairman.

Confessions of a white-collar dope fiend.

How the Brooklynization of culture killed regional music scenes.

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.

The psych hospital life of John Hinckley Jr., Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin.

A young black gentrifier gets lumped in with both groups, often depending on what she’s wearing and where she’s drinking. She is always aware of that fact.

In the aftermath of a mysterious murder, exploring a part of the story that has received little attention: the young man who lost his life.

A veteran black Metro columnist, adrift in a rapidly shifting D.C., rankles an incoming generation of gentrificationists.

This isn’t truck-on-truck violence. It’s the taxpaying owners of brick-and-mortar restaurants—along with a host of other powerful District players—who are waging the attack.

Fifteen years ago, William Dranginis saw Bigfoot. He’s still trying to prove it.

It costs $40 and could save your life. What do cyclists have against bike helmets?

This is the story of the night Hannah was not officially raped in Washington, D.C.