Reading archive 2021-09-08

Opinion: How the rise of Politico shifted political journalism off course - "So the press spent much of the Obama years acting as if the opposition to him was solely because he had a liberal policy ideas on issues such as health care — and not because Obama had become both the leader and a symbol of a multicultural America whose values are opposed by many on the right. Wary of angering Republican readers, much of the mainstream press refused to cast the GOP as drifting into radical and racist behavior, even when prominent Republicans would not acknowledge that Obama was born in the United States."

D.C. renews Adams Morgan business improvement district but urges change: Critics called for the dissolution of a taxpayer-funded nonprofit organization because of its governance