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Samuel Ashworth
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Samuel Ashworth has been a bartender, a dancer, and a reporter. His fiction and nonfiction appear in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Longreads, Eater, Punch, Hazlitt, and so on. He teaches creative writing at George Washington University and is a former columnist for The Rumpus and an assistant fiction editor at Barrelhouse Magazine. A native New Yorker, he now lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, DC.
Dispatches from the Swamp: How to Sleep-Train Your Lawmakers
This time? This time we decided to sleep-train the baby.
Dispatches from the Swamp: No Justice, No Tacos
Civility only works on the civil. Decorum is for the deserving.
Take the Words “Judeo-Christian” Out of Your Damn Mouth
"Everything about the term is predicated on bad faith. It needs to die."
Dispatches from the Swamp: The Babble in the Bubble
To the extent that America—that great big word that makes us all so anxious—exists at all, it exists as a vast and noisy sheet of bubble wrap.
Dispatches from the Swamp: To the Bureaucrats, with Love
About 173,000 people work for federal agencies in this Washington DC, and let’s be absolutely clear from the get-go: the mood among them is grim.
Dispatches from the Swamp: Storm’s Coming
It was as if I could hear the whole country breathing softly, softly, together. Finally, the sleepless eye had closed.
Dispatches from the Swamp: The Absolute Necessity of Softball
And then one guy on his team yells, “You have to touch the bases, buddy! This is still America!” That is all it takes. For one guy on the other side to put country over party.
Dispatches from the Swamp: I Watched the Comey Hearings in a DC Bar with a Face Full of Novocaine
When you live in a political football it’s hard to ignore getting kicked.