Paul Schwartzman The Washington Post

A neighborhood advisory panel in Washington that typically focuses on liquor license applications and other local concerns is inserting itself into the international furor prompted by the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last month at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

The emailed response from the Guggenheim's chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: the museum could not accommodate a request to "borrow" a painting by Vincent Van Gogh for President Donald and Melania Trump's private living quarters. Instead, the curator offered an alternative - an 18-karat, fully functioning, solid gold toilet

In the coming days, Sally Berk will be able to say that she lives in the same Northwest Washington neighborhood as Barack and Michelle, Jared and Ivanka, and a billionaire named Jeff.

The world's power address du jour is a sheath of soaring black glass on Fifth Avenue, at the entrance to which an officer in combat armor - his fingers on an assault rifle - took a moment the other day to tell a tourist where to find the city's best pizza.

To the catalogue of anxieties her patients explore during therapy - marriage, children, and careers - psychologist Alison Howard is now listening to a new source of stress: the political rise of Donald Trump.

He referred to Mexicans as "rapists," questioned Sen. John McCain's status as a war hero, ridiculed the physical appearance of his opponents, falsely claimed that "thousands" in New Jersey cheered as the World Trade Center fell and, this week, called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.

A neighborhood advisory panel in Washington that typically focuses on liquor license applications and other local concerns is inserting itself into the international furor prompted by the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last month at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

The emailed response from the Guggenheim's chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: the museum could not accommodate a request to "borrow" a painting by Vincent Van Gogh for President Donald and Melania Trump's private living quarters. Instead, the curator offered an alternative - an 18-karat, fully functioning, solid gold toilet

In the coming days, Sally Berk will be able to say that she lives in the same Northwest Washington neighborhood as Barack and Michelle, Jared and Ivanka, and a billionaire named Jeff.

The world's power address du jour is a sheath of soaring black glass on Fifth Avenue, at the entrance to which an officer in combat armor - his fingers on an assault rifle - took a moment the other day to tell a tourist where to find the city's best pizza.

To the catalogue of anxieties her patients explore during therapy - marriage, children, and careers - psychologist Alison Howard is now listening to a new source of stress: the political rise of Donald Trump.

He referred to Mexicans as "rapists," questioned Sen. John McCain's status as a war hero, ridiculed the physical appearance of his opponents, falsely claimed that "thousands" in New Jersey cheered as the World Trade Center fell and, this week, called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.