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Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia Former president Donald Trump's campaign released a copy of a Federal Election Commission complaint against The Washington Post on Friday, alleging that the newspaper made illegal in-kind [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos published an opinion piece Monday night on the news organization's website, defending his decision Friday to end the paper's practice of endorsing [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia, Herb Scribner, Laura Wagner For a time this fall, the mood in The Washington Post's newsroom showed signs of lightening. The buyouts of some 120 journalists at [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia Nearly one third of The Washington Post's 10-member editorial board stepped down Monday in the wake of Friday's decision by the newspaper's owner and publisher to end [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia, Laura Wagner The Washington Post's publisher said Friday that the paper will not make an endorsement in this year's presidential contest, for the first time in 36 [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia, Laura Wagner The Washington Post's editorial board announced Friday that it will not make an endorsement in this year's presidential contest, for the first time in 36 [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia Not long ago I attended a food festival that featured as part of the entertainment an energetic rock cover band. The musicians played more than competently to [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia At Christopher Steele's home in England, they have a running joke. It has to do with the epitaph for his gravestone. His wife says it should read: [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia Alsu Kurmasheva is a talker, her voice a familiar companion in her native Tatarstan, where her news reports were once beamed from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's headquarters [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia The dateline on the columns by the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary was, and still is, jarring: âPRETRIAL DETENTION CENTER NO. 5, MOSCOW.â In this surreal [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia On March 29, 2023, the Wall Street Journal ran a front-page story about how Russia's economy was teetering on the edge of disaster as its invasion of [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia One basketball player went for one arms dealer. One former Marine went for one cocaine smuggler. What might the journalists go for? Such is one of the [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way By Fred C. Trump III Gallery. 338 pp. $30 - - - Conspicuously placed in [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia During one of the darkest weeks in the history of Wall Street, the globe-trotting financial investigative journalist Richard Behar got a call from his cousin. It was [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia, Hope Hodge Seck On a winter day not long ago, an Afghan man - a 21-year-old who'd once dazzled U.S. Special Forces with his ability to find [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia It seems hardly a week goes by that I donât hear from another friend who is struggling with the challenges of aging parents. The world is graying [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia When Elizabeth Babcock walks visitors through San Diegoâs vast Balboa Park, the reminiscences pour forth. âMy child did their quinceañera here,â they tell Babcock, president and CEO [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia For years, advocates for sexual assault survivors have accused the music industry of not doing enough to protect women - and have often felt like no one [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia In the spring of 2014 and on through the sizzling summer that year, tens of thousands of children crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into Texas without their parents. [...]

Byline: Beth Reinhard, Manuel Roig-Franzia and Clara Ence Morse FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. - At a diner known for political chitchat and Coca-Cola memorabilia, former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio walked [...]

Byline: Beth Reinhard, Manuel Roig-Franzia and Alice Crites Philip Esformes beat the system. Or so it seemed. Less than five years into a 20-year sentence for his role in a [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia Not so long ago, Jack Smith was just another Jack Smith, before the nation became acquainted with the bushy beard and penetrating if unrevealing gaze. Before he [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia 'The Suicide Museum' By Ariel Dorfman Other Press. 688 pp. Paperback, $21.99 - - - Long before Sept. 11 was a date seared into the collective memory [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia Nancy Yao, who had been criticized for her handling of sexual harassment allegations at a New York museum, has withdrawn from a prestige post as the Smithsonian's [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia In SÈâO PAULO, Brazil - - - In this traffic-choked megacity, a grand old house rots on a quiet side street, shoulder-to-shoulder with the luxury high-rises that [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia The Smithsonian has quietly delayed the planned start date of the founding director of a new women's history museum as an investigation of multiple employee retaliation lawsuits [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia A former Playboy centerfold model who says she was drugged and raped more than five decades ago by Bill Cosby has filed a lawsuit against the legendary [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia By Luis Alberto Urrea Little, Brown. 416 pp. $29 - - - In the winter of 2021, I learned about a Vietnam War veteran who had searched [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia and Thomas Floyd WASHINGTON - When the Smithsonian Institution announced in March the selection of Nancy Yao to be the founding director of the new American Women's [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia LAS VEGAS - The office park is nearly empty. Miles away, casinos blink and blare. But this place looks like it could be anywhere in cookie-cutter America. [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia NEW YORK - Some things about Benjamin Hall readily make sense. That one leg is gone below the knee, but it's replaced by a prosthetic, much like [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Survival By Ron DeSantis Broadside Books. 256 pp. $35 - - - We are now deep into the [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia By Patricia Engel Avid Reader Press. 224 pp. $26 - - - Next time you see a woman pushing a stroller down the sidewalk, try observing the [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia Late one night in the spring of 1994, a 40-year-old federal judge was startled awake by loud pounding at the front door of his home in Vienna, [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press By Katherine Corcoran Bloomsbury. 315 pp. $28 - - [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia Former surgeon general Jerome Adams and his wife, Lacey, often find themselves talking about what they have named the 'Trump Effect.' It followed them from Washington to [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia Deep below ground in the bomb shelter, they could hear the Russian shells pounding the edges of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. Victor Greenchuk, wearing camouflage pants and [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia OAKMONT, Pa. - The 'other American' imprisoned in Russia has a name, too. He was always just Mr. Fogel to the students he entranced with lectures about [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia By Miguel Èüngel Asturias. Translated by David Unger Penguin Classics. 282 pp. Paperback, $17.99 - - - If you've used one of those online translation tools, you [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia In December 2019, a 1,200-foot-long, 400-foot-wide ship called Pioneering Spirit muscled through the waters of the Baltic Sea off the Danish island of Bornholm. The floating behemoth [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia One day in the spring of 1973, Spencer Oliver - a self-assured though little-known Democratic political insider with oversize wire-rimmed spectacles - says he got a call [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia WASHINGTON - Even his family always wondered about Elmer Wyatt. By the 1970s, this charmer with the impish smile had been driving a taxi in Washington for [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia There was no mistaking the voice on the other end of the phone line. That twangy timbre. Brash and sass. Undiluted Arkansas Delta. Bob Woodward had heard [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia By Scott Carney and Jason Miklian Ecco. 528 pp. $29.99 - - - In 2021, so many large storms formed in the North Atlantic that meteorologists ran [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia The hole in the fabric is jagged. A messy slash travels east-west across the spot where a heart once beat, then branches north. Nothing about this scar [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia Ashok Bajaj, the celebrated Washington, D.C., restaurateur, owns 281 copies of 'Storm Warning: The Origins of the Weather Forecast,' a book published in 2005 that promised to [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia NEW YORK - Greg Gutfeld is picking through a long, narrow closet. He wrenches a painting from the depth of the clutter. A painting of himself. That [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia By Carlos Ruiz Zafón Harper. 176 pp. $26.99 - - - Long before his manifestly unfair death from cancer in 2020 at the age of 55, the [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia t took half a century to get a chance to say the words. Just 'thank you.' That's all. For Jim Roberts, this desire had become a fixation, [...]

Byline: Manuel Roig-Franzia In 1971, a 25-year-old high school science teacher named Jim Roberts found himself in a muddy hamlet 50 miles outside Saigon, a 'wide spot in the road,' [...]