Photos: Transgender and gay in D.C.
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Recession road
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Michael S. Williamson is hitting the road again and invites you to join him.
Armstrong gets his kicks coaching youth soccer
Redskins wide receiver learns along with his youth team.
In the Rust Belt, glimmers of a new shine
The manufacturing heartland is adding jobs, even if they don’t pay what they used to.
Richard Thompson: Life of a cartoonist, in drawings
Original illustrations by the artist behind the comic strip “Cul de Sac”
French president, wife expecting baby
Child to be Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s first together.
Video: On Leadership: The micro management story of Steve Ressler
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‘Plebes no more,’ at the Naval Academy
Brandon Romero, a first-year student at the U.S. Naval Academy, felt a big weight off his shoulders when a member of his class reached the top of the Herndon Monument and officially ended his plebe year.
The Wanda Alston House in Northeast is a transitional housing space for homeless gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth between ages 16 and 24. Residents can live in the house, which is run by the nonprofit Transgender Health Empowerment, for up to 18 months while they attend school and get jobs. Sarah Feliciano, who has lived in the Wanda Alston House since March, is a transgender female who became homeless after her mother rejected her decision to live as a woman.
Ben Chworowsky, 21, of Waukesha, Wis., participates in the one-week "Advanced Training Course" at the Extreme Seal Experience in Chesapeake, Va. Chworowsky wants to prove to himself that he is strong enough to become a Navy Seal. He intends on enlisting in the Navy as soon as he can.
Devin, a transgender male living at the Wanda Alston House in northeast Washington D.C., reads a poem he wrote. The Wanda Alston House is a place where homeless or near homeless gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth can live for up to 18 months.
Bird's eye preview of the Andrews Air Force Base Airshow
Lieutenant Colonel John Klatt has loved planes all of his life, flying planes for the Air National Guard out of college and earning his wings from the Air Force in Texas. Now, he flies aerobatic planes as well as C-130s and F-16s.
Congressman Jason Chaffetz of Utah is among a group of passionate, hard-charging conservatives who have been inspired by the aggressive tactics of GOP leaders Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan. The trio is known collectively as the Young Guns.
Bill Liao on the entrepreneurial gene
Entrepreneur Bill Liao, founder of social network xing.com and more recently WeForest, talks about driving start-ups and leaving them once they're successful.
The ‘micro’ management story of Bill Liao
In this 60-second video, WeForest's Bill Liao talks about witnessing good leadership turn around a faltering employee.
The ‘micro’ management story of Leonard Marcus
The co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative speaks about how his father surviving the Holocaust has influenced his studies of crisis leadership.
On Leadership: Crisis leadership in a post-9/11 world
Leonard Marcus, co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, talks about the best way to lead through large-scale crises.
On Leadership: 'Taking away the punchbowl'
In an interview with the Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein, FDIC chairman Sheila Bair talks about her agency's role in the financial meltdown, the common denominator among bad bank leaders, and how "it's never a good time to tighten regulation."
Inmates anchor prison newscast
Inmates at Maryland Correctional Training Center in Hagerstown, Md., produce a closed-circuit TV news show about prison issues and events. Prison staff say the newscast is a useful tool for maintaining security and communicating with the prison population.
Celebrating Mother's Day from Afghanistan
On Mother's Day, U.S. Army Private First Class Lexa M. Pagan is nearly 7,000 miles away from her four-year-old son, Yandel, and her parents, Mary and Axel Gonzales. But thanks to video communication, Lexa can share part of the holiday weekend video chatting with her family. Using both Skype and Google, Lexa does her best to visually interact with her son at least once a week.
Group warns May 21, 2011, marks beginning of judgment day
Members of Family Radio’s “Project Caravan,” who travel from city to city to warn of the impending judgment day, spread their word near the National Mall. The group believes the Bible predicts that the end of days will be May 21, 2011.
Columnist Adrian Higgins explains how an arbor makes a small gardening plot more spacious and shows how to care for herbs and lettuce.
Fifty years after the freedom rides
On May 4, 1961 civil rights activists departed from Washington D.C. on buses headed to New Orleans. The Freedom Riders planned to test whether the Supreme Court ruling that prohibited racial segregation in public facilities would be enforced in the South.
Jodie Foster on the beaver puppet
Director Jodie Foster discusses her new movie, The Beaver, with The Washington Post columnist Jen Chaney.
Jodie Foster discusses child acting
Director Jodie Foster discusses her new movie, The Beaver, with The Washington Post columnist Jen Chaney.
Jodie Foster discusses her future
Director Jodie Foster discusses her new movie, The Beaver, with The Washington Post columnist Jen Chaney.
9/11 firefighters react to Osama bin Laden's death
Firefighters who responded to terrorist attacks on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, talk that day and their thoughts about the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, at Fire Station 8 in Arlington, Va.Weight of the world
With a few exceptions, the average body mass index in most countries has risen since 1980. See the trend with this interactive graphic.
The hidden life of guns
A Post investigation breaks years of secrecy on where the region’s crime guns are sold.
Best of The Post 2010
Our seventh annual installment showcases the most striking visual content produced in 2010.
In rural Alaska, a promise unfulfilled
Photographer Nikki Kahn spent four weeks on location in rural Alaska.
Unfinished business: Earth Day 40 years later
The first Earth Day was organized by a group of activists in Dupont Circle.
Top secret America
The government has built a system so big, no one really knows if it’s keeping its citizens safe.
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