Home & Style | Real Estate They Bought a New DC Luxury Condo. It Could Collapse. When a pair of first-time homeowners moved into a sleek condo in Northwest, they were thrilled. Now they’re afraid their building “could fall over”—and wondering why city inspectors failed to spot its many flaws. Condos, FeaturesMay 23, 2024
News & Politics The Local Girls Who Inspired the Hollywood Classic “Mean Girls” For decades, Jessica Jackson had a secret: Her high-school social life was an inspiration for the hit film “Mean Girls.” Film, Mean GirlsMay 13, 2024
Health | News & Politics Meet the NIH Detectives Cracking Medicine’s Toughest Cases When people suffering from mysterious afflictions have nowhere left to turn, they come to NIH’s Undiagnosed Diseases Program in Bethesda, where a team specializing in ultra-rare genetic disorders takes on cases that have stumped the medical world—and offers patients new hope. NIH, rare diseaseMay 7, 2024
Food | News & Politics The Great Restaurant Fee Fiasco Surcharges are taking over Washington menus—creating confusion for diners, backlash for restaurants, and a fight over the future of eating out. Initiative 82, service fees, tippingMarch 28, 2024
Food | News & Politics Meet the DC Activist Behind the Alt-Meat Revolution Bruce Friedrich was responsible for some of the animal-rights movement’s most notorious stunts—but now he’s working to win over meat eaters one bite at a time. alternative-meat, sustainabilityMarch 14, 2024
News & Politics LGBTQ+ Gun Owners Are Breaching the Right-Wing Arms Bubble In a time of rising fear and polarization, liberals are increasingly taking up arms—and challenging a gun culture long dominated by conservatives. Gun Control, gun violence, LGBTQFebruary 29, 2024
News & Politics How #freetonylewis Became a Successful Movement At age 26, Tony Lewis Sr. was sentenced to life without parole for his leadership role in the signature drug empire of 1980s Washington. His son, Tony Lewis Jr., made it his mission to get his incarcerated father out of prison. Crime, DC History, Drugs, IncarcerationFebruary 15, 2024
News & Politics Restaurants vs. Diners, Psychedelic Therapy, and the Spy House Next Door: Washingtonian’s Best Longreads of 2023 Ten great feature stories we published this year. Longreads, Washingtonian Wrapped 2023December 7, 2023
News & Politics The Untold Story of the Washington Football Team’s First Black Cheerleaders Amid the boiling racial tension and desegregation battles of the late 1960s and early ’70s, a group of young Black women teamed with a DC civil-rights leader to break the color barrier on the Washington NFL team’s cheer squad. Their story has largely been overlooked—until now. Black history, Washington Football TeamNovember 1, 2023
News & Politics The Potomac’s Herring Are Hurting. Virginia’s Game Wardens Protect Them. Every spring, armed officers play hide-and-seek with poachers under Chain Bridge to protect the river’s most imperiled fish. Is it working? animalsOctober 26, 2023
