Michelle Obama touts Subwayâs kids menu
Subway is the latest food company to join the first lady’s healthy eating initiative.
Two young women drive antiabortion movement’s revival
Kristan Hawkins, 28, and Lila Rose, 25, have used aggressive tactics to become rising stars in the movement.
Michelle Obama uses life story to promote education initiative
Michelle Obama takes a personal approach in tackling a high-profile policy area with potential land mines.
Turning 50, Michelle Obama focuses on final 3-year stretch in White House
The first lady is focusing on higher education, military family support, and health — and is open to Botox.
Scenes from a friendship
Michelle Obama and Beyoncé Knowles have expressed mutual admiration frequently.
Michelle Obama and Beyoncé: Friends and feminists?
The two women — successful in careers and family — may be markers of 21st-century feminism.
As Sasha and Malia Obama become young women, a father laments time slipping by
The president is getting publicly nostalgic as he talks of how quickly Malia and Sasha are growing up.
Judge Leon’s ruling in NSA case is another example of his impartiality and independence
Richard J. Leon is known for his independent opinions, his candor and valor under political fire.
Roberto Schmidt, POTUS selfie photographer, weighs in on reactions to Michelle Obama
Roberto Schmidt on reactions to Michelle Obama’s expression, “photos can lie.”
Michelle Obama and South Africa’s Graça Machel have a personal connection
United States’ Michelle Obama and South Africa’s Graça Machel are advocates for children and wellness.
Mall fast ‘created a moment’ for immigration reform, activist says
Eliseo Medina stepped down as a labor union leader to focus his efforts on progress in Congress.
Michelle Obama talks teenage years on BET
One who didn’t party in high school, didn’t have a car, and wanted to be a pediatrician.
First lady kicks off education advocacy efforts
Michelle Obama is pushing for higher college graduation rates for U.S. students.
4 Questions as Michelle Obama addresses education
The first lady will speak Tuesday at Bell Multicultural High School, where she will talk with 10th-graders.
After months of budget-related delays, White House resumes busy events schedule
After months of budget-related delays, Michelle Obama hopes to turn her home into “the people’s house.”
New York’s incoming first family says it all with their hair
The de Blasio family represents the increased diversity and blending of cultures in the Big Apple.
Michelle Obama’s Halloween plans
The White House celebrates the holiday with military families, Bo and Sunny-themed decorations -- and some candy too.
Where grass roots are really unhappy: White House garden goes untended amid shutdown
Because of the shutdown, the once-immaculate White House Kitchen Garden is now gangly and weedy.
Essence: Black women still poorly depicted in media
Survey finds black women saddened, disrespected by media images.
Krissah Thompson began writing for The Washington Post in 2001. She has covered local businesses, traveled to El Salvador and Guatemala to tell stories of immigrants’ connections to their home countries and reported from the newsroom’s Prince George’s County bureau. One of her favorite stories on the beat was about an immigrant from Guatemala who was part of the burgeoning class of Central American entrepreneurs opening up shop in the Washington region. She has also been an enterprise writer on the National staff, traveling the country to interview voters during the 2008 presidential campaign. More recently, she has written about civil rights, race and politics. Now she is a Style writer, who covers First Lady Michelle Obama and writes about a broad range of not-so famous people, who unlike FLOTUS do not require Secret Service protection. She lives in Upper Marlboro with her husband Danny and the ever-energetic Jayden. Also: Native Houstonian. UT-Austin alum. Life-long Journalist. She tweets @krissah30.