WAMU Special Reports

Facing The Mortgage Crisis

It all started with a mortgage crisis. It cascaded into a global financial crisis. Now the Washington region is dealing with the fallout.

WAMU 88.5 coverage of the VA's Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans

The Department of Veterans Affairs is conducting an official review of why its workers detained WAMU 88.5 reporter David Schultz and confiscated his equipment after he spoke to a veteran at an April 7 town hall meeting.

Young Voters

As American voters choose who they will support in the 2008 presidential election, they're facing a long list of issues and perhaps and even longer list of candidates.

9-11, Five Years Later

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, changed America. We no longer are the nation we were before that fateful day.

Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow's memory is honored with a Blue Plaque in London on February 15, 2006. Sam Litzinger gives this personal recollection.

My Work is My Passion, But...

Aside from the city's official capital status, Washington, D.C., has also been called the "nonprofit capital" of the United States. About half of the nearly 8,000 non-profits in the area are small organizations, with budgets of less than $5 million.

What It Means To Be American

In celebration of Independence Day, WAMU 88.5 asked people what it means to them to be an American.