Amid all the serious stuff, the General Assembly has its moments of merriment. At one point last week, while House Speaker R. Clayton Mitchell Jr., D-Eastern Shore, was trying to gavel the delegates ...

Just about every judge has one, on the desk, waiting to be used. So why is it that in D.C. Superior Court, one of the biggest and busiest courthouses in the country, no one can remember a judge ever ...

Linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer analyzes the origins of words in the news. Read previous columns here. After a tense 15 rounds of voting that stretched over four days, Republican Rep. Kevin ...