If you managed to stay inside basking in the glow of fluorescent lights and humming computers, congrats. Our informal survey of the city's green spaces indicates that most Washingtonians didn't share your stamina and came up with some excuse to get outside. Whether you were "taking the dog to the vet," "coming down with a touch of the flu" or just dealing with the House's voting malarkey, we now proudly offer "Go Home Already:... more ›

Listen to President George W. Bush on any given day and you'll probably hear that Iraq is a little messy, but nothing that a little elbow grease and Republican determination couldn't handle. Listen to the Post's correspondents and, well, things seem a little less rosy. To date four of the newspaper's writers have produced books on Iraq, none of which Bush will likely be taking down to Crawford anytime soon. Bob Woodward's State of Denial:... more ›

Fall is the season of festivals, so I hope you've stretched properly over the last few weeks, because this weekend is chock full of 'em. more ›

Summer heat is one of those story-in-a-pinch type themes, there for newspapers when the vacation months grow long and no cat has been recently rescued from a neighborhood tree. It's hard to fault the Post for the attention today, though; after one of the mildest springs in recent memory, yesterday leaped to brain-boiling, shoe-sole-sizzling hot. Temperatures are predicted to moderate, back to around 80, after Thursday, but it's clearly time to banish thoughts of a mild summer. more ›

Good morning Washington. As you can probably imagine, just about any D.C.-area newspaper reader has been transfixed on Bob Woodward's massive piece in today's Post detailing how the Post's iconic reporter became acquainted with W. Mark Felt who would become Deep Throat and together managed to topple the Nixon administration. There's no need to summarize the whole thing here. Just go read it, just so you know what everyone is talking about at the water... more ›

The University of Texas at Austin is opening to the public today part of their collection of the notes created by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during the Watergate scandal. The University of Texas purchased the notes for $5 million in 2003. The documents include the image to the right, the first page of Bob Woodward's notebook from the preliminary hearing for the men arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee... more ›