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Washington Culture

"I'm the Guy They Called Deep Throat"

Deep Throat, unmasked.

John D. O'Connor Vanity Fair Jul 2005 30min Permalink

Best Article Arts Politics Media

David Gergen, Master of the Game

A profile of the man who helped invent the modern art of presidential spin and came to embody the blurry line between journalist and government official.

Michael Kelly New York Times Magazine Oct 1993 50min Permalink

Politics

He Who Makes the Rules

The bureaucratic hell of enforcing legislation in Washington.

Haley Sweetland Edwards Washington Monthly Mar 2013 2h30min Permalink

Media

Come On, Feel the Buzz

On Politico’s brand of insider journalism.

Alex Pareene The Baffler Nov 2012 25min Permalink

The Framing Wars

How “grand metaphors” drive politics.

Matt Bai New York Times Magazine Jul 2005 Permalink

The Truth About the Fast and Furious Scandal

How, and why, the world got it wrong.

Katherine Eban Fortune Jun 2012 25min Permalink

Politics

The Situation and the Story: Press Corps Parties While White House Makes History

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.

Foster Kamer, Kat Stoeffel The New York Observer May 2011 Permalink

Politics

I Dated Monica Lewinsky

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.

Jake Tapper Washington City Paper Jan 1998 15min Permalink

Best Article Politics

Obama vs. Boehner: Who Killed the Debt Deal?

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

Matt Bai New York Times Magazine Mar 2012 20min Permalink

Business Politics

Could This Time Have Been Different?

Retracing the early economic steps of the Obama administration.

Ezra Klein Washington Post Oct 2011 25min Permalink

When the Boss Gets Busted: Survival Stories from the Front Lines of Political Scandal

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

Marisa Kashino Washingtonian Jul 2011 15min Permalink

Maine senators may not like each other much, but they share love of state, job

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

Martha Sherrill Washington Post May 2011 25min Permalink

Business Media

How Bloomberg Does Business

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.”

Aram Roston The Nation Feb 2011 Permalink

Politics

The Gentleman From Virginia

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

Allison Hoffman Tablet Feb 2011 Permalink

Return of the Republicans

“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.”

John B. Judis The New Republic Jan 2011 15min Permalink

History Politics

From That Day Forth

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

Todd S. Purdum Vanity Fair Feb 2011 25min Permalink

Crime

"We'll Never Eliminate Risk"

A interview with John Pistole, head of the TSA.

James Fallows, Jeffrey Goldberg, John Pistole The Atlantic Dec 2010 20min Permalink

Politics

Double Exposure

A profile of Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, published at the height of the controversy.

Vicky Ward Vanity Fair Jan 2004 30min Permalink

Obama’s Afghanistan Choice

According to this excerpt from Woodward’s Obama’s Wars, the president’s military advisors gave him only one option: send an additional 40,000 troops. Obama pushed back.

Bob Woodward Washington Post Sep 2010 10min Permalink

Religion

Frat House for Jesus

Inside the C Street house in Washington and the little-known spiritual group behind it.

Peter J. Boyer New Yorker Sep 2010 30min Permalink

Best Article Politics

Washington, We Have a Problem

A day in the political life of Barack Obama.

Todd Purdum Vanity Fair Aug 2010 Permalink

The Empty Chamber

Why the U.S. Senate gets so little done.

George Packer New Yorker Aug 2010 45min Permalink

Business

Show Him the Money

A profile of Tom Donohue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the sixth-highest paid lobbyist in the country. Since Obama took office, Donohue has scared-up tens of millions in new donations.

James Verini Washington Monthly Jul 2010 20min Permalink

Arts Politics

Regard the Scuttlebutt as True

The head of the Social Security Administration’s secret life as a respected poet.

Paul Mariani First Things Jun 2010 Permalink

Politics

All the Obama 20-Somethings

Playing beer pong with David Axelrod—and other scenes from the lives of young, high-profile aides in the Obama White House.

Ashley Parker New York Times Magazine Apr 2010 Permalink

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