Category Archive: Washington D.C.

The Five Worst Cities in America

Cities are “back,” as you might have heard, following a long period when urban America was viewed by fearful […]

Birthing Mass Transit in the DMV: WMATA and the Difficulties of Multi-Jurisdictional Transportation Systems

“It’s a system that’s maybe safe, somewhat unreliable, and that is being complained about by everybody,” – Jack […]

A Law of Unintended Consequences: The Ironies, the Tragedies, and the Triumphs of the 1965 Immigration Act

On October 3, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed what became, in retrospect, one of the most influential […]

Musical Fugazi: Politics, Post Punk, and Reevaluating D.C.’s Most Famous Rock Band 25 Years Later

Last December, amidst one of D.C.’s colder and more snow-filled winters, a symbol of the city’s musical past […]

Building Subways in the Post World War II World: Los Angeles and Washington D.C.

In a September 2014 issue of the Beverly Hills Courier, a front page story declared that the construction […]

Northern Virginia and Cold War Covert Capital

The covert actions of the US government abroad, and their domestic ramifications, have drawn an increasing amount of […]

“Capital within a Capital”: Covert Action, the Vietnam War, and Creating a “Little Saigon” in the Heart of Northern Virginia

“That flag is the symbol of the spirit of the refu­gee,” Springfield resident and Vietnamese American talk show […]