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Jason Fagone Washingtonian Feb 2018 20min Permalink
Jessica Sidman Washingtonian Dec 2017 15min Permalink
A mom looks back on the “brief but wondrous experience” of raising her son Mattie, a little boy poet with a devastating rare disease who earned a following around the world.
Justin Heckert Washingtonian Jul 2017 25min Permalink
A profile of Steve Bannon’s 29-year-old protégé, the Washington bureau chief at Breitbart, who according to a former editor “has two modes: murder and blowjob.”
Luke Mullins Washingtonian May 2017 20min Permalink
How a tragedy transformed a small town in West Virginia.
Elaina Plott Washingtonian May 2017 20min Permalink
Donors all over America opened their wallets for his United States Navy Veterans Association. Politicians all over Washington posed for grip-and-grins with him. But not only was he not a legitimate fundraiser for military families—he wasn’t even Bobby Charles Thompson.
Daniel Fromson Washingtonian Mar 2017 25min Permalink
How a brewery became more famous for what’s on its bottle than what’s in it.
Amanda Whiting Washingtonian Jan 2017 15min Permalink
Chris Barry was born into Washington D.C. royalty. He died alone, essentially homeless, just a year after losing a race for his father’s former seat.
Harry Jaffe Washingtonian Jan 2017 20min Permalink
On chemo.
Luke Mullins Washingtonian Dec 2016 20min Permalink
The story of a home invasion, a torture session, and one lawyer who nearly killed another.
Jason Fagone Washingtonian Oct 2016 25min Permalink
He drives a Toyota. He eats fro-yo. He takes care of two dozen feral cats.
Editor’s note, 7/27/16: Hinckley has won his freedom and will live full-time with his mother.
Eddie Dean Washingtonian May 2016 20min Permalink
Rabbi Barry Freundel said he would help dozens of women convert to Judaism. In the process, he secretly videotaped them naked.
Harry Jaffe Washingtonian Jan 2016 25min Permalink
A profile of Joe Biden, written not long after the car crash that killed his wife and daughter.
Kitty Kelley Washingtonian Jun 1974 20min Permalink
If you’re falsely claiming to have once been a Navy SEAL, Don Shipley will expose you. And then he’ll put the video on YouTube.
Michael Gaynor Washingtonian Aug 2015 25min Permalink
Although she is one of the richest writers in the country, her finances are a mess.
Laura Moser Washingtonian Jun 2015 25min Permalink
John Beale was an exemplary employee at the Environmental Protection Agency. He also led a double life, though not the rumored one at the CIA his colleagues whispered about.
Michael Gaynor Washingtonian Mar 2014 15min Permalink
The man who killed John Wilkes Booth was a eunuch. By choice.
Bill Jensen Washingtonian Apr 2015 15min Permalink
What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.
Alan Siegel Washingtonian Mar 2015 15min Permalink
Behind a $1,000 sundae were two very, very ill-suited business partners.
Emily Codik Washingtonian Feb 2015 20min Permalink
The residents of Green Bank, West Virginia, can’t use cell phones, wi-fi, or other modern technology due to a high-tech government telescope. Recently, this ban has made the town a magnet for so-called electrosensitives, and the locals aren’t thrilled to have them.
Michael J. Gaynor Washingtonian Jan 2015 15min Permalink
The inside story, involving low ratings, new ownership, suspected leaks, and a mandate that Meet the Press “loosen up.”
Luke Mullins Washingtonian Dec 2014 25min Permalink
The flawed data on safety equipment.
Patrick Hruby Washingtonian Dec 2014 20min Permalink
Vivien Thomas was paid a janitor’s wage, never went to college, and still became a legend in the field of heart surgery.
Katie McCabe Washingtonian Aug 1989 35min Permalink
The author goes in search of his father’s days as a member of an elite club of sport parachutists.
Michael Graff Washingtonian Apr 2014 30min Permalink
How a once-lauded psychiatrist became a prolific prescriber of painkillers in one of Virginia’s poorest and most isolated counties.
Ariel Sabar Washingtonian Jan 2014 20min Permalink