Ethan Wechtaluk

On April 16, 2027, I will stand on the House floor and read the names of thirty-two people. And I will ask one question: Are we finally ready to say enough? I know that day the way you know the thing that…

Getty Images/ImaZinS RF Congress is voting this week on whether to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (colloquially known as FISA). The program expires April 20. If it passes clean — with no reforms and no warrant requirements —…

© 2017 Tracie Van Auken & Courtesy of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation There’s a thought experiment I want you to sit with for a moment. Let’s say you’re in Accident, Maryland — a real town in Garrett County, population just over…

There’s a pond tucked into the Jefferson National Forest just outside Blacksburg, Virginia called Pandapas Pond. If you’re from Southwest Virginia, you probably know about it. I went there as a little kid on daycare field trips, the kind where everyone’s just…

There are a lot of congressional primaries happening in 2026. Most of them are noise. But Maryland’s 6th Congressional District is not noise and here’s why. What’s playing out in MD-06 right now is a stress test for the entire Democratic Party…

Terra Energy, which owns the site of the former Dickerson Generating Station, has plans for the land to become the site of a data storage facility and data center campus. (Jerry Jackson/The Banner) There’s a reason Northern Virginia became the data center…

Here is something most people don’t know about me: I live with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Along with it come anxiety and depression. The problem? I look completely fine from the outside. I have a career, a family, and responsibilities. I show up for…

Rising steam partially obscures the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., September 24, 2023. Photo by Elizabeth Frantz/REUTERS I want to tell you something that took me years inside the federal government to fully understand. The machine isn’t broken. That’s the part…