Aaron Wiener

Housing, real estate and development in the D.C. region

Education: Yale University, BA in history

Aaron Wiener is a reporter covering housing, real estate and development in the D.C. region. He was previously the editor of Retropolis, The Post's history section. Earlier, he was a senior editor at Mother Jones, a housing reporter at Washington City Paper, a Berlin correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and the editor of the Washington Independent. He lives in D.C. with his wife and two sons. He lives in Washington with his wife and two children.
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D.C. AG sues landlord for ‘horrendous’ conditions in subsidized housing scheme

A D.C. landlord has been profiting from rental assistance programs while subjecting low-income residents to dangerous conditions, according to two lawsuits.

September 9, 2024
The office of D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D), seen in 2023, filed two lawsuits against a District landlord.

Why are historians obsessed with George Washington’s thighs?

“Muscular thighs.” “Nice quads.” “Very strong thighs.” Male biographers of George Washington have long fixated on his manly physique. Are they missing the point?

February 18, 2024
A cropped version of a print showing George Washington in his military uniform.

The first long government shutdown led to chaos — and ‘furlough babies’

A 1995 budgetary standoff between House Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton ground the government to a halt for four painful weeks.

October 1, 2023

    Paghahanap kay Maura

    Nagtungo si Maura mula Pilipinas sa 1904 World’s Fair para maitampok. Iilan lamang ang makakaalam kung anong nangyari sa kanila hanggang makalipas ang 100 taon.

    August 16, 2023

      Searching for Maura

      Maura came to St. Louis from the Philippines to be put on display at the 1904 World’s Fair. Few people would know what happened to her for more than a century.

      August 16, 2023

      'Brain desirable,' Part 2

      Who is Mary Sara, the Sami woman whose brain was taken for the Smithsonian’s “racial brain collection”? Today, we find her descendants. And we find out how the Smithsonian is addressing the dark legacy of its “bone doctor,” Ales Hrdlicka.

      August 15, 2023

      'Brain desirable,' Part 1

      When Mary died in 1933, her brain was sent to Ales Hrdlicka, the Smithsonian’s ‘bone doctor.’ We couldn’t find any records that Mary or her family consented to this. So what happened to Mary’s brain? And what is the extent of the Smithsonian’s “racial brain collection”?

      August 14, 2023

      Who was Rodney King? His 1991 beating by L.A. police roiled America.

      The release of body-camera footage of the Memphis police beating of Tyre Nichols recalls the horrifying video of the 1991 beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police.

      January 27, 2023
      Rodney King makes a statement at a Los Angeles news conference on May 1, 1992, in which he asked for an end to violence.

      What was New Year’s Day front-page news 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago?

      Princess Xenia’s 1923 arrival, a D.C. centenarian’s 1948 birthday, a Redskins 1973 victory and a Kennedy’s 1998 death all commanded Washington Post headlines

      January 1, 2023
      The Washington Post front page on Jan. 1, 1973.

      The racist Tuskegee syphilis experiment was exposed 50 years ago

      The secret experiment conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service studied the progression of the deadly venereal disease in Black men — without treatment.

      July 26, 2022
      A participant in the Tuskegee study has blood drawn, circa 1930s. The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was an unethical experiment by the U.S. Public Health Service tracking the progression of the disease in a poor sharecropper population in rural Alabama.