The D.C. State Board of Education backed a proposal to ban legacy admissions at some private universities, including ...

In the only state named after a president, lawmakers in Washington are debating whether it’s time to redesign the state flag and possibly remove the nation’s first president from it. Democrats ...

George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. And yet the nation is once again commemorating ...

As we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who George Washington was. That kind of national amnesia isn’t ...

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others ...

George Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977.

His loyalties were to his nation and its young and fragile Constitution. Eventually, he put meaning to those loyalties by voluntarily choosing not to run for a third term. That set a precedent ...

In Alabama, Washington shares the spotlight with friend-turned-rival Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third president and ...

Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic, not a king.

At around 8:15 p.m. American Airlines Flight 5342, with 64 people on board, begins its initial descent into Reagan National. At 8:43, from the airport’s tower, a controller asks the plane's ...

It has been nearly a week since a commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter collided in midair near Washington’s Ronald ... here is a look at the timeline of events: At around 8:15 p.m ...