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Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation centers on a miserable young woman who believes that if she could only sleep long enough, she'd wake up refreshed and free of existential pain.

Set amid a theoretical debate about a potential Whole Foods arriving in the historically underserved Washington, D.C. neighborhood, the musical looks at the good and the bad of gentrification.

President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced in a Virginia court Thursday to 47 months in prison for his financial crimes. He faces another sentencing next week in D.C.

T. Geronimo Johnson's latest follows four Berkeley students who take an American history class that leads to disaster. It's an ambitious book about race that wants to say something big about America.

The Smithsonian's museums and zoo are now closed due to the government shut down. Tours of historic Washington, D.C. sites have been suspended and the National Gallery of Art is also closed.

A Juneteenth ceremony was held at the Ohio Statehouse Thursday, June 18, 2026.

People can be found riding bicycles on sidewalks around the country. But should sidewalks double as bike lanes?

Debra and Marc Tice, parents of journalist Austin Tice who was taken captive in Syria in 2012, recently heard from the Obama administration that officials have "high confidence" their son is alive.

Eighteen states and D.C. have sued Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over her decision to suspend borrow defense rules. Michel Martin talks with D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine about the lawsuit.

The Minnesota Democrat put out a statement apologizing for the 2006 incident, in which he is accused of forcibly kissing a woman while on a USO tour and later groping her while she was sleeping.