A federally funded program offering D.C. public school students vouchers for private school tuition has long been a flashpoint between many Republicans and Democrats, and now it has become an issue in the 2012 presidential contest between Mitt Romney and President Obama. more ›

Even before the election that could see the first Mormon president in U.S. history, the Washington region is becoming something of a Mormon stronghold. more ›

President Obama is set to kick off his re-election campaign this weekend in Richmond, but presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney certainly isn't leaving the Old Dominion to the Democrats. more ›

Hank the Cat, a candidate for the open U.S. Senate seat in Virginia, released his income tax filing yesterday. He paid $0 in federal taxes on an income of $5,000 after taking some sweet deductions. more ›

Republicans always talk of slimming down the size of the federal government, and presumptive presidential contender Mitt Romney already has some ideas as to where he'd start cutting—the Department of Housing and Urban Development. more ›

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is a good bet for Mitt Romney vice-presidential pick, says a local political analyst. more ›

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will win the Republican presidential primaries in the District and Maryland, all major news organizations project. Though neither race was close, both will help Romney pad his delegate lead. more ›

The District may only have 16 delegates to give to a Republican contender, but for Mitt Romney's slow march towards the 1,144 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination, no delegate is being left behind. more ›

If the Republican nomination battle between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum seems a little staid, think of it as an epic battle between two mythical warriors: Javelin vs. Petrus. Sounds little sharper, eh? more ›

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney said he supported statehood for Puerto Rico—sin condiciones. more ›

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney should skate to an easy victory in Virginia's Republican presidential primary tomorrow, but various elements might make it more of a hassle than expected. more ›

Several hundred protesters descended on the gates of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel earlier this afternoon to voice their displeasure with the Conservative Political Action Conference going on inside. more ›

Roseanne Barr wants to be the next U.S. president. So do a lot of other fringe candidates, from one guy with a boot hat to another who bases his campaign platform on the 1611 King James Bible. We review but a small sampling of them. more ›

The race to fill the Ward 5 seat on the D.C. Council once held by Harry Thomas, Jr. is off, and just about everyone is getting involved. more ›

Sure, Mitt Romney barely won yesterday's Iowa caucuses. But allow us to join the chorus of people who marvel at how they have gained such an outsized influence in the presidential primary process. more ›

Mitt Romney suspended his presidential campaign while in Washington today to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Omni Shoreham Hotel on Calvert St. NW. more ›

The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on the stand and a video of a man being beaten up by teenage girls on a subway shocked the city. And we interviewed soon-to-be-leaving-Gawker editor Choire Sicha, who said,... more ›

When it comes to who the D.C. Republican Party should side with in the 2008 presidential contest, the choice is obvious -- Mike Huckabee. Sure, the former governor of Arkansas doesn't have much of a chance of winning, but he's been consistent in his support of D.C. voting rights. In yesterday's All-American Presidential Forum on PBS, hosted by Tavis Smiley, it was Huckabee who backed voting rights for the District's 600,000 residents. In response to... more ›

Download the original attachment Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend's annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what's becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one of the participants. Chicagoist's decidedly opinionated readership was also appalled that one of their staffers found a popular local brewpub to be a great place to bring a kid. They also think that an unlikely activist for immigration... more ›

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too – two of them in -Ist cities. Sampaist was shocked when a passenger jet crashed into the center of Sao Paulo, killing at least 200 people. The airplane, an Airbus A320, skidded off the runway at the... more ›

Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into cheek) hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. gentrification spawned a fantastic debate amongst SFist's readers. Finally, from the sublime to the ridiculous: video of a man that confused a Board of Supes meeting with "open mic... more ›

What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly, freedom to blog. Here are a few things we're happy we've been free to blog about this week. Being the nation's capital, DCist felt especially proud to let freedom ring this week by exposing the really important issues, like how sad they... more ›

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA... more ›