Elections

Ed Lazere, the longtime head of an active, left-leaning local think tank, is seeking a citywide D.C. Council seat in the general election this year, he announced Tuesday. Lazere joins a significantly crowded field in the race to replace…

Ed Lazere, the leader of a left-leaning D.C. think tank, announced Tuesday that he would run for an at-large seat on the D.C. Council in November, two years after he unsuccessfully challenged Chairman Phil Mendelson (D).

A grainy video posted to Twitter last week shows a woman offering $5 in exchange for signatures on nominating petitions for Ward 2 candidate Jack Evans and At-Large Councilmember Robert White. Evans and a representative from White's…

You might have heard there’s an election this year. We’re not talking about the presidential contest; we’re talking about the various D.C. Council races in our own backyard. The June 2 primary is less than 12 weeks and, as far as the local…

Jack Evans appears to qualify for public campaign funding in his bid to reclaim the D.C. Council seat he gave up amid an ethics scandal, according to new filings.

Mike Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren weren’t the only pols to suspend their campaigns this week, it turns out. Left-leaning community activist and Northwest neighborhood commissioner Renée Bowser dropped out of the Ward 4 D.C. Council race…

He pleaded for forgiveness, but got booed. He played the populist, drawing angry jeers. And he fought back, throwing a few verbal counterpunches after what may have seemed like a stream of body blows.

Former D.C. Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans made his first public appearance since resigning from the seat he now seeks to reclaim on Thursday during a candidates forum near Dupont Circle.

Jack Evans stood before hundreds of former constituents packed inside a Northwest Washington church and offered penance in his bid to reclaim the D.C. Council seat he gave up in scandal.

But a lot of the questions mention a "fifth generation D.C. resident" and a "former Obama administration official."

Allow us to present them in terms any national campaign watcher can understand.

Jack Evans keeps coming back—even to national politics.

The city made a fateful decision to go last. Now the overlooked primary has outsized importance on who wins—Bernie or Biden.

A national sex worker advocacy group said Wednesday that it will drop an effort to place a measure on the D.C. ballot to decriminalize prostitution, after an uproar from local sex work activists.

Since launching his bid to reclaim the D.C. Council seat he gave up under pressure in January, Democrat Jack Evans has been scolded by former constituents and abandoned by longtime allies. A former council colleague said no when Evans…

The scandal-plagued candidate knocked on doors, called an opponent's supporters, and visited an old folks home.

Former D.C. Office of Human Rights Director Monica Palacio, who has been credited with adopting aggressive policies to fight discrimination targeting transgender women and LGBTQ people in general, announced on Feb. 20 her candidacy for an…

The D.C. Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance announced on Monday that it would not issue a candidate rating on LGBTQ-related issues for former D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) because of the Council’s determination that Evans…

D.C. now knows just how many voters got incorrect information about the upcoming primary election date.