Marc Fisher

Washington, D.C.

Columnist and Associate Editor at The Washington Post

Washington Post columnist and associate editor; co-author of 'Trump Revealed,' and author of 'Something in the Air' and 'After The Wall.'

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Articles

How to survive after two murders

2 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

How to survive after two murders (washingtonpost.com) How to survive after two murders By Marc Fisher 2025060409453800 On the day when a gunman shot and killed Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky outside the Capital Jewish Museum and shouted "Free, free Palestine," the museum opened a new exhibit, "LGBTJews in the Federal City," which asks visitors why Washington's Jews rejected, then later embraced, their own gay community.
The proposed D.C. stadium deal pits money vs. reason. Guess who wins.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

The proposed D.C. stadium deal pits money vs. reason. Guess who wins. (washingtonpost.com) The proposed D.C. stadium deal pits money vs. reason. Guess who wins. By Marc Fisher 2025052809452400 Sometime this summer, the D.C. Council will decide whether the Washington Commanders come home to the RFK Stadium site along the Anacostia River.
Connolly built the trail to post-Trump progress. Who will hike it?

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

Connolly built the trail to post-Trump progress. Who will hike it? (washingtonpost.com) Connolly built the trail to post-Trump progress. Who will hike it?
In D.C.’s new world of eating out, when is a service fee a tip?

2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

In D.C.’s new world of eating out, when is a service fee a tip? (washingtonpost.com) In D.C.’s new world of eating out, when is a service fee a tip? By Marc Fisher 2025052109451200 In 2022, D.C. voters approved Initiative 82, a ballot measure that makes restaurants take more responsibility for paying their tipped workers instead of having waitstaff rely on customers' generosity.
Invited, then uninvited: How Trump’s Kennedy Center is policing art

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

Invited, then uninvited: How Trump’s Kennedy Center is policing art (washingtonpost.com) Invited, then uninvited: How Trump’s Kennedy Center is policing art By Marc Fisher 2025051409450000 Growing up in Southeast Washington, Tariq Herencia saw the Kennedy Center only from a distance, except that one time his school bused the kids across the Anacostia River and over to the gleaming white culture palace on the Potomac to see "The Nutcracker." "That was the place for the crème de la crème,"...
It has come to this: The U.S. will broadcast One America News

4 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

It has come to this: The U.S. will broadcast One America News (washingtonpost.com) It has come to this: The U.S. will broadcast One America News By Marc Fisher 2025050810302000 After all of President Donald Trump's attacks on the purportedly "fake" news media — and after all of his lawsuits against those who dare to criticize him — the news that he and his information czarina, Kari Lake, are going to replace the journalism of Voice of America with the slanted sycophancy of One America News...
Trump logic: ‘We want to help vets.’ ‘I help vets.’ ‘You’re fired.’

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

Trump logic: ‘We want to help vets.’ ‘I help vets.’ ‘You’re fired.’ (washingtonpost.com) Trump logic: ‘We want to help vets.’ ‘I help vets.’ ‘You’re fired.’ By Marc Fisher 2025050709450800 Edwin Jackson's government work was finding jobs for military veterans and then making sure those vets succeeded. Like this: Representing the Social Security Administration at a job fair in Maryland, Jackson meets a paralegal and steers her toward a position at his agency.
In Virginia, a gay GOP candidate is proving difficult for MAGA to accept

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

In Virginia, a gay GOP candidate is proving difficult for MAGA to accept (washingtonpost.com) In Virginia, a gay GOP candidate is proving difficult for MAGA to accept By Marc Fisher 2025043009453500 Two weeks ago, John Reid, a longtime rabble-rousing radio talk show host in Richmond, was the underdog in this year's Republican primary for lieutenant governor in Virginia. Last week, Reid was the undisputed, unopposed GOP nominee for the post.
How D.C.’s dangerous new prosecutor is making the city less safe

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Marc Fisher

How D.C.’s dangerous new prosecutor is making the city less safe (washingtonpost.com) How D.C.’s dangerous new prosecutor is making the city less safe By Marc Fisher 2025042309453500 People who used to do Ed Martin's job say he is single-handedly wrecking the U.S. attorney's office in the District of Columbia.
Trump wants to limit U.S. history to the shiny parts. It won’t work.

1 month ago | phillytrib.com | Marc Fisher

Developers reshape reality. They dress up the drab and market it as the unique. Donald Trump spent about half a century hawking condos, casinos and all sorts of middling products that he sold as spectacular, with some success (and plenty of failure, too). Now, he’s taking a product with nearly 250 years’ worth of blemishes and beauty spots and he’s remarketing it in his usual style — as utter perfection, made possible exclusively by him.