Washington, D.C.
A Danish architect gets the nod to remake ‘the backyard of the nation’
Architect Bjarke Ingles and his team have an ambitious plan to remake the area around the Smithsonian Castle in Washington. The hope is to open up underground galleries and show people artworks and museums they may not even know existed.
Revisiting the Civil Rights Movement Ahead of the March on Washington’s 50th Anniversary
On the morning of August 28th 1963, the idea of America was tested and in the sounds of feet stepping and buses parking, there was a sign early that day that something would happen. It would not be a normal day, in Washington, in America, in the world. For hours the crowds gathered, for the […]
40 Years Later: The Watergate Hearings
Republicans kept up the pressure on the Obama administration this weekend by calling for a special independent counsel to investigate the Justice Department’s monitoring of journalists’ records and the I.R.S.’s targeting of right-wing groups. Talk of overreach and possible criminality have led some in the G.O.P. to make perhaps tenuous comparisons to events 40 years ago. […]
