- Petula Dvorak
- Columnist
- Chick-fil-A, Papa John’s and In-N-Out Burger: Spare us your fast-food righteousness
- Olympic moms demonstrate how women can have it all: gold medal, cute kids, killer abs
- Predatory towing infuriates its victims but survives anyway
- Jack Montgomery’s wedding toast: To family
- In the District, a same-sex couple’s adoption success story
- Election chatter glosses over our child-care morass
- Inspired by the ‘Hunger Games,’ Katniss wannabes flood archery camps
- D.C. women with HIV: The new face of the city’s AIDS epidemic
- A Prince George’s pool builds an African American swimming powerhouse
- Why D.C.’s bicycle groper must be found
- Blog post about sexual assault in D.C. unleashes torrent of women’s stories
- Are Vincent Gray’s days as D.C. mayor numbered?
- Time to draw back the curtain on child welfare system
- Washington’s Hell Week puts climate change back on the radar
- A ruling class deprived of its power
- The summer trip you didn’t plan: Bored kids mean odd injuries and visits to the ER
- The summer trip you didn’t plan: Bored kids mean odd injuries and visits to the ER
- The U-Va. president drama: Is it the Queen Bee scenario?
- Encounter with a homeless man touches a Virginia Starbucks manager
- Father’s Day fantasies: A day of golf, or maybe just a nap
- Your high school beach week memories #MySeniorWeek
- Senior Week in Ocean City: How heinously are your kids behaving?
- In D.C., a sense of entitlement fuels fully loaded political scandal
- College student who knows pain of parent’s incarceration gives back to kids
- Just let it Bee
- Why Army women are demanding the right to fight — and die — in combat
- Transgender at Five
- Transgender at five: Tyler’s story leads to outpouring of other stories
- Encounter in second-grade class leads to story of transgender 5-year-old
- Drug treatments for transgender kids pose difficult choices for parents, doctors
- Transgender at five
- Bike lover, bike hater: Depends on whether you’re on four wheels or two
- A marriage, just like Congress, should be about compromises
- What do moms want for Mother’s Day? (Hint: It’s not brunch.)
- A school enrollment shell game: Conniving or caring parents?
- Are gypsy cabdrivers to blame for D.C. midnight taxi madness?
- Abortion protesters target a clinic landlord’s in-laws
- White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner has nothing on suburban fete
- Young and hurting: 18- to 21-year-olds with nowhere to go
- Holocaust survivors: Harrowing ordeals still largely untold
- D.C.’s taxis: Third-class rides in a world-class city just got pricier
- GSA and Secret Service bacchanals are bad for the federal brand
- For homeless single dad, nothing’s easy, even when it’s good
- Virginia Tech massacre’s $48 million tab makes the case for gun control
- A spring break road trip leads to a family discussion about race
- An ounce of prevention
- A clinic’s landlord turns the tables on anti-abortion protesters
- Washington area thieves turn laundry detergent into ‘liquid gold’
- Documentary on bullying shows that we have become the bullies
- Payday loan disaster: A holiday splurge leads to a 651% interest rate
- Military conference offers a woman’s perspective
- Va. lawmakers’ womb obsession is hard to fathom
- Showing the world the power of women’s voices
- Forcing Frederick County’s immigrants to speak English: Dubious motives, obvious benefits
- ‘I don’t like that I love Pinterest’: An update from our columnist
- Addicted to a Web site called Pinterest: Digital crack for women
- For Maryland’s gay legislators, moment of truth looms on same-sex marriage
- In Whitney Houston and Yeardley Love stories, substance abuse an unfortunate theme
- Donald Trump will fit right in on Pennsylvania Avenue
- When it comes to tardiness, shouldn’t the punishment fit the crime?
- The big backlash against bullying women
- Warming trends amid a hope for snow
- D.C.: Rude, busy or both?
- For ambitious women, similar labels but divergent perspectives
- Unfortunately, Romney’s right that $374,000 isn’t very much — especially for most Americans
- An overdue welcome, carved in stone
- Occupy squalor: The ultimate test for helicopter parents
- At University of Maryland, a $7.2 million president’s mansion demonstrates the wrong priorities
- National Guard deployment sendoff becomes an old and emotional ritual
- Gadgets got your schedule scattered? Maybe it’s time to go back to paper.
- Dvorak: Most parents say they’d do the kid thing all over again
- ‘What is the point of having kids if your life ends when theirs begins?’
- The Seat Pleasant 59: Money doesn’t equal success
- Midnight moms are in the grip of holiday mania
- In Plan B debate, politics obscures the central figures: teens and babies
- At Va. Tech, gunfire revives awful memories
- Police maintain professionalism in Occupy D.C. confrontation
- It’s nuts to spend so much time and money on John W. Hinckley Jr.
- Positive legacy of the Sandusky scandal: More sexual abuse victims speaking out
- Siri: The must-have Christmas gift for multi-tasking moms
- Food program puts kids face-to-face with the needy, not just at the holidays
- Occupy D.C.: Is it time to tear down these tents?
- Are kids growing up too fast?
- Our veterans, living and dead, deserve better from us
- Safety nets for mentally ill children are full of holes
- In snow, federal government should look at telecommuting, not sheltering
- What’s scarier: The slaying, or the bystanders who heard and did nothing?
- Washington’s closest-guarded secret: The pumpkin broker’s name
- Child’s injuries damage parents’ trust in day care
- Wal-Mart angst: We hate the big box but we need the prices
- Epidemic of vaccine fear triggers return of old-school diseases
- Many Gen X women, overworked and in debt, take a pass on parenthood
- Arlington’s H-B Woodlawn — Hippie High — enters middle age
- Message of anti-Wall Street protesters is getting through to average folks in D.C.
- Mushroom Mardi Gras in D.C. region: Eat at your peril
- Is it a comedy or a tragedy?
- Shuttering MLK library on Sundays is close-minded
- Prince William County’s rise highlighted by income data
- Working mom movie-fest: Ditching the husbands and kids for a chick flick
- A refugee from Bhutan vanishes from her new life
- High price for swift action in Jacks case
- Today’s youths in military families shoulder the horrors of 9/11
- Hurricane Irene leaves Falls Church arborist homeless when tree falls on house
- Stealth health in the lunch line
- Overhyped Irene makes Washington the inevitable butt of snickers
- How efforts to get a statue honoring Revolution’s black soldiers crumbled
- Lunchbox lunacy: A back-to-school special
- Wonky Washington is seriously weird
- Theodoric James deserved persistent help from the government
- Bert and Ernie should not get married
- Oversharing on the Metro: A tale of TMI
- This Montgomery County curfew skeptic says it’s not too late to be a good parent
- Ethiopian heritage camp in Va. offers tradition, togetherness to adopted African kids and their families
- Jaycee Dugard’s memoir, ‘Stolen Life’
- The pool is where it’s at in summer.
- Marion Barry’s son following in his addictive footsteps, tragically
- In women’s sports, unity of fans doesn’t stick around
- A meditation on the inconspicuous Buddhists around us
- Casey Anthony and Karen Murphy: Two kids dead, two moms charged with murder
- I’m a huper. We’re a huper. Wouldn’t you like to be a huper, too?
- Nats ditch fireworks and joy for a sub horn
- The District’s next health calamity: HIV infection among Latino men
- Cigarette smokers shrug off graphic warning labels
- Fundraising for Nigeria: Changing the world, one dance at a time
- As parenting roles shift, men are now freer than ever to be real fathers
- An event never seen before at the D.C. jail: a high school graduation
- D.C. elected leaders: Do the job we’re paying you to do
- End of an era for tiny dancers
- Dancers in Jefferson Memorial are following in footsteps of hippie kite fliers
- When interpreting freedom, reason sometimes takes a back seat
- Chaperoning a school field trip expedition? Beware of being fed to the lions
- Daredevil motorcyclists — ‘squids’ — are creating havoc on roadways and, in some cases, results are deadly
- Squeezing Viagra into tight Montgomery County budget
- The best birth story? One with a happy ending for mother and child.
- Having witnessed the bike courier business’s evolution, an old-timer signs off
- For some military moms, a long-distance juggle
- Gas-tank gamblers: Running on empty in search of cheap fuel
- Celebrating bin Laden’s killing: It’s complicated
- For the wise women donning pre-dawn tiaras, a puzzling epidemic of amnesia
- Prejudice lives on, even in enlightened D.C.
- What a waste: The forlorn television armoire
- Sold! Auctions helping schools close the funding gap
- Abortion: Grist for the political mill
- As N.Va. neighbors show, housing mess isn’t limited to the irresponsible
- In D.C., government shutdown would rain on a lot of people’s parades
- There are some things for which you can’t find a security barrier
- Food dyes may make kids hyper, some scientists say, but sadly the price is right
- A parent’s multiple sclerosis can take heavy toll on children
- Exoneration erases only part of the debt
- West Point experience illustrates changing role of women in military
- The scariest lessons for youngsters in times of 24/7 catastrophe coverage
- A temperance movement springs up to combat Fairfax County schools’ zero-tolerance policy
- For many Muslim Americans, King’s hearings add to weight of community’s burden
- Gray now fighting off the very ethical accusations he made against Fenty
- Md. delegate torn on gay marriage
- Where are the angels for critical health and school needs?
- For parents, shots in Tucson have a nightmarish echo
- End of needle exchange marks loss of a bulwark in D.C.’s AIDS fight
- A temperance movement springs up to combat Fairfax County schools' zero-tolerance policy
- Brigadier general from Vienna heads to N.Y. on a canine mission
- Finding little to love about Valentine's Day
- Finding little to love about Valentine's Day
- Minorities are on the move, and others' ignorance follows them
- D.C. court program teaches absent fathers how to be good dads
- Super Bowl matchup brews a rivalry at two neighboring Capitol Hill bars
- It's up to parents to keep achievement race from going down the toilet
- Wednesday's hellish commute, described by many more than 140 characters
- For teens, MTV's 'Skins' offers allure of the forbidden
- Another murder rampage that will stain a community
- Petula Dvorak is away. Her column will resume when she returns.
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