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Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron in a retirement letter to the staff

By Jacqui Banaszynski • January 27, 2021

Marty Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post for the last eight years, has announced his retirement effective Feb. 28, 2021.

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The photographer who took the soon-to-be-memed image of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders at the presidential inauguration tells Rolling Stone why he chose it

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America’s first hip-hop inaugural poem ties history to the present, optimism to urgency

Youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman draws on Hamilton, MLK, scripture and slavery to capture and prod America in the moment

By Lisa Grace Lednicer • January 21, 2021

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Narrative News

“We start with more questions than answers…”

By Jacqui Banaszynski
January 27, 2021

Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron in a retirement letter to the staff

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“The mountains on the horizon …”

By Jacqui Banaszynski
December 29, 2020

Tana French in her novel "The Searcher"

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“He was old enough to dance to a good beat but too young to know his favorite color.”

By Jacqui Banaszynski
December 11, 2020

Peter Hermann and Clarence Williams of The Washington Post, in a story about the spike in gun violence in Washington D.C.

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“… a common appreciation for truth.”

By Tom Warhover
November 13, 2020

Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin

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E Pluribus Unnerved

By Constance Hale
November 5, 2020

A fleeting headline on an Election Day story by the New York Times

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“His work is a parable …”

By Jacqui Banaszynski
October 28, 2020

Kurt Streeter in the New York Times, writing about Minneapolis cop and high school football coach Charles Adams

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“They told me their stories, gave them to me for keeping, which I did, always listening, always remembering.”

By Jacqui Banaszynski
September 15, 2020

From the novel "The Water Dancer" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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“… between broad statistical data and intimate personal disclosure.”

By Jacqui Banaszynski
July 17, 2020

Classical music critic Michael Andor Brodeur of the Washington Post

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“His conversation is so delightfully sauced …”

By Madeline Bodin
July 1, 2020

Robin Wall Kimmerer from an essay in "Braiding Sweetgrass"

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“Violence of the light miraculous.”

By Jacqui Banaszynski
June 26, 2020

From the novel "The Dust That Falls from Dreams" by Louis de Bernieres

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“Words are living things. They have personality, point of view, agenda.”

By Trevor Pyle
June 16, 2020

Mads Mikkelsen as TV character Hannibal Lecter

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“They were tired, so tired and still they returned.”

By Jacqui Banaszynski
June 11, 2020

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