"The holiday season is loaded with little luxuries: tasty treats, thoughtful gifts, and-sometime after the last office party but before the inbox deluge that marks the first full working Monday of the new year-some quiet time to sit and read. If you're looking for good stories that will engage your mind, touch your heart, and make you simultaneously calm down and freak the heck out about the possibility of a ginormous asteroid wiping out human civilization, we have you covered."
"Business is down. The vibes are tense. President Trump claims DC's restaurant scene is "booming" since his return to the White House-but insiders tell a different story to our own Jessica Sidman, who discovers that when you terrorize immigrants, throttle the local economy with tariffs and federal workforce cuts, put armed troops on the streets, turbocharge partisan animosity, and have loud n' proud MAGAs out on the town in deeply blue city, the result for local dining establishments is ... not optimal."
"Setting out to discover the truth behind three makeshift memorial stones resting before a row of townhouses in a leafy Mount Pleasant neighborhood in Northwest DC, writer Bo Erickson found the deeply moving love story of Chuck and Larry-a pairing that began almost 50 years ago and was so solid in the face of prejudice, so lasting in the face of loss, that it had to be remembered in stone. Editor's note: everyone at Washingtonian who worked on this story cried when reading it."
Holiday reading options span local and global concerns, from strained urban dining to planetary defense. One longread details declines in DC restaurants linked to immigrant-targeting measures, tariffs, federal workforce cuts, armed troops on streets, heightened partisan animosity, and visible MAGA presence in a deeply blue city. Another recounts a deeply moving 50-year love story of Chuck and Larry memorialized by makeshift stones in Mount Pleasant. A separate piece examines the DC-based NASA office that leads worldwide efforts to spot and neutralize tens of thousands of potentially dangerous asteroids. Coverage also includes a profile of 88-year-old Eleanor Holmes Norton.
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