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@WashingtonPost Weekend editor. Author of "The Real Thing: Lessons on Love and Life from a Wedding Reporter's Notebook."
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It’s not too late to spare this crucial intelligence agency

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By Ellen McCarthy Verified
| Washington Post Opinions Verified
It’s not too late to spare this crucial intelligence agency (washingtonpost.com) It’s not too late to spare this crucial intelligence agency By Ellen McCarthy 2025072211004800 In a world increasingly defined by uncertainty and great-power rivalry, the last thing the United States should be doing is cutting one of its most quietly indispensable assets: the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) at the State Department.
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Perspective | How to be a terrible cherry blossom tourist

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By Ellen McCarthy Verified, Hannah Good
| The Washington Post Verified
It’s cherry blossom season again, which means more than a million visitors will be pouring into Washington to see the pretty pink trees along the Tidal Basin. We hope you come and have a fabulous time. But if you’d like to ruin the experience for yourself and everybody else, we have some tips on how to be a particularly loathsome cherry blossom tourist …
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What $85 will get you at 5 flower shops in the D.C. area

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By Fritz Hahn Verified, Zoe Glasser, Sophia Solano Verified, Ellen McCarthy Verified
| The Washington Post Verified
Buying flowers can be fraught. Do red roses say too much? Do white carnations say too little? And that’s before you even get to the jaw-dropping price tags. We’re talking about flowers, not furniture — no matter how much cash you drop, they’re not built to last. To see what we could get for our money, we visited five local flower shops anonymously and asked the florists to help us create a romantic arrangement with a budget of $85. Here’s what happened.
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