Fifty years ago, at the dawn of the American environmental movement, Congress held a revelatory series of hearings featuring anthropologists and biologists but also an artist, a theologian, and a…
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Middleburg, VA, is just a little over an hour from The Swamp but it is another world altogether. With its lush landscape dotted with vineyards and horse farms dedicated to…
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I’m a proud swamp dweller. I have lived in Washington since 1989, since my son Luke was three-and-half, since my late husband, Tim Russert, was sent here to become the…
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The Trumps may be re-making the nation’s capital in their image, but this town values power, not money. And it has seen many come and go before.
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Washington, DC – March 24, 2018 The poignant homemade signs just kept flashing by me at the March For Our Lives yesterday. They showed real fear but total determination: “New…
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In an effort to explain his father, Carl Colby’s new documentary, The Man Nobody Knew, offers a Who’s Who parade of former top-level C.I.A. and government officials as well as some of the most knowledgeable journalists who cover the agency—from Robert Gates and Donald Rumsfeld to Sy Hersh and David Ignatius. As they opine on the institution and William Colby’s influence, the film gives viewers a true sense of what it is to live a lie day after day and to hobnob at the highest levels in other countries—all while seeking to advance U.S. interests by whatever means necessary.
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