The Briefing Room

Washington, D.C., without the government-town errand

Free museums, monuments after dark, Ethiopian and Salvadoran food, and the D.C. layover that works when you stop treating the city like paperwork.

Lincoln Memorial lit at night from the edge of the Reflecting Pool.
Lincoln Memorial after dark. Photo by Victoria Mejia-Gewe on Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nighttime_Photo_of_the_Lincoln_Memorial.jpg