The Goodspeed Update

According to media reports, leaders of the Trotskyite organization the Revolutionary Workers League (RWL) have been active in Lansing, Michigan, organizing a counter-protest to a Nazi rally there over the weekend. The Lansing State Journal reported about 100 counter-protestors turned up at the peaceful April 22 rally. I found one local blogger, historymike, who posted […]

Exhibit: “The Interstate in the District of Columbia”
“An exhibit featuring historic and current photographs, maps, and documentation of the design and construction of the Interstate Highway System in the District” currently showing at Union Station.

“For once in a public building in Washington, there is excellence throughout.”
Kriston Capps writes about the main branch of the […]

Getting to work: a study in public transportation
My friend Emily compares ways to get to work using different combinations of bus and rail.

Homes for an Inclusive City: A Comprehensive Housing Strategy for Washington, D. C.
From Brookings

Panorama of the Washington Post Newsroom
From when the Pulitzer winners were announced.

I found this Malcolm Gladwell article in the New Yorker on a book about reasons quite interesting. Is your reason a story, a convention, or a code? This part reminded me of some of the talk about Michigamua:
When we say that two parties in a conflict are “talking past each other,” this is what we […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about place names recently.
First there is the persistence of names. There was one case I stumbled across at work: while researching an old factory in San Francisco I discovered that although now the site is the location of two apartment towers, the new buildings retain the name of the old […]

The Washington Oculus: A Magic Roundabout
Mike wants one of these in DC.