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Bryce Harper's unprecedented ascent to the major leagues, from a 17-year-old first overall draft pick to a headline-creating, 19-year-old rookie center fielder for the Washington Nationals, dropped him into the middle of the best season of D.C. baseball since the Great Depression. Washington Post sports reporters chronicled each moment on and off the field, from his first press conference in Washington, to watching him wash dishes after dinner at...
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Barack Obama arrived in Washington in 2008 symbolizing the political change he promised on the campaign trail during his historic presidential victory. But in many ways, Washington changed Obama more than Obama changed Washington. This is the story of how the idealist of the 2008 campaign evolved into a hard-nosed pragmatist, shelving his promise of a new kind of politics to fight increasingly partisan budget battles and run a bare-knuckles re-election...
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Bruce Jenner captured America's attention by shattering world records in the Decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Launched onto the world stage, Jenner was young, photogenic, All-American. He humbly accepted the adulation of a nation, and has stayed a household name ever since, even more so in recent years as the patriarch of one of America's most famous-and infamous-families, the Kardashian / Jenner clan. Almost forty years later, the press has...
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From the Washington Post comes a fascinating profile of the digital native generation. For the generation after Millennials, technology has been the only way of life since birth. These children are the first group to have their formative moments chronicled on Facebook, to grow up surrounded by the ubiquity of smart phones, and most important, to navigate a social landscape ruled by the internet. With this lifestyle comes a host of issues that prior...
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The aftermath was almost as devastating as the storm itself. In the ten years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, New Orleans has changed drastically, and The Washington Post returns to the region to take the full measure of the city's long, troubled, inspiring, unfinished comeback. When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, it wrenched more than a million people from their homes and forever altered New Orleans-one of the...
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The Internet can appear to be elegantly designed, but as The Washington Post's Craig Timberg demonstrated in his illuminating series "Net of Insecurity," the network is much more an assemblage of kludges-more Frankenstein than Ferrari-that endure because they work, or at least work well enough. The defects hackers use often are well-known and ancient in technological terms, surviving only because of an industry-wide penchant for patching over problems...
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