Columnist covering policy, elections, governance and culture. Perry Bacon Jr. is a Washington Post columnist. Before joining The Post, Perry had stints as a government and elections writer for ...

Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sanchez, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen and Kerianne Flynn made history as they became the first all-female flight crew to launch into space. The famous ladies took off ...

Sara Geffre sat on the porch of one of her neighbors' homes and watched as the smoke billowed from the hills and a firm breeze kept changing direction. Geffre and her family didn’t evacuate ...

Citing privacy laws, the state Health and Human Services Department doesn’t comment on adoption cases, spokeswoman Jecca Geffre said. In a brief filed to the Supreme Court, Health and Human ...