Inside the Mind of the MAGA Bomber
Cesar Sayoc turned his loyalty toward Donald Trump into a literal assault on the President’s Democratic enemies in 2018.
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Cesar Sayoc turned his loyalty toward Donald Trump into a literal assault on the President’s Democratic enemies in 2018.
Luke Mullins Washingtonian Aug 2020 20min Permalink
Bruce Fleming is known for being a chauvinistic, egoistic loudmouth–but firing him has been a lot harder than the Pentagon thought.
Benjamin Wofford Washingtonian Apr 2020 Permalink
How Washington society got scammed by one of its own.
Marisa M. Kashino Washingtonian Jan 2020 20min Permalink
A little over 30 years ago, a Northern Neck fisherman went to prison for the brutal slaying of a homecoming queen and mother of two. Now, a reexamination of the case by a hard-charging UVA lawyer has turned up troubling questions.
Marisa M. Kashino Washingtonian Jul 2019 50min Permalink
A Washington family’s nightmare year.
Anonymous Washingtonian May 2019 25min Permalink
“Yeah, okay, listen. It’s Sy Hersh. Who the f— do you think I am? Your f—ing wife? What do I look like to you? Your f—ing brother-in-law?”
Ben Wofford Washingtonian Oct 2018 Permalink
They got heart transplants on the same day. Then they fell in love.
Susan Baer Washingtonian Aug 2018 20min Permalink
To the KGB and back.
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