Opinion

The profit-driven underpinning of all of our systems — including our public health infrastructure — has become plainer than ever through this ongoing pandemic. Eclipsed by the coronavirus’s pervasive impact, however, is another ongoing…

The deaths aren’t always loud or public. There’s no web of screaming yellow crime-scene tape, and sirens are rare. But in 2020, opioids claimed more than twice the 198 lives that gunfire did in the nation’s capital.

Ballet’s diversity problem isn’t new, but some of the promises to fix it are. The Dance Institute of Washington has seen what happens when words accompany action.

With parts of our city resembling the Wild West — teenagers engaging in broad-daylight shootouts or committing carjackings with the aplomb of stagecoach robbers — it’s dispiriting to see two major-domos in the city’s public safety…

As D.C. contends with the ever-evolving challenge of the pandemic, it is hard to believe we are on the verge of a third consecutive budget cycle to be affected by the coronavirus.

Georgetown University is considering firing an academic over his tweets. If it does so, it will harm not only its own reputation but also the credibility of higher education in general.

Miss Shirley doesn’t usually mind all the ruckus on her Southwest Washington street corner, which was recently prettied up with a sprawling, candy-colored mural of a lotus blossom and a child.

The Washington region’s recovery, and its chances of returning to anything resembling pre-pandemic economic norms, are inextricably tied to Metro’s good health. At the moment, Metro is sick.

Other places across the country are coming up with creative solutions to school staffing shortages, and D.C. is offering substitutes $1.80 more an hour

On Wednesday, I will participate in D.C.'s “point in time” count — the annual census of people experiencing homelessness in our city. Mandated by the federal government, the count offers a snapshot of residents living on the streets and in…

The nation’s capital will once again be awash in the aura of an electrifying Kennedy this weekend.

Here is a sampling of headlines from our editorials in 2015 and 2016, just before and as Paul J. Wiedefeld became general manager of Metro, the Washington area’s transit system:

A few weeks ago, I took a fairly lengthy early-morning Metro ride to run an errand. The bright lights on the 3000 series train felt incessant, and I struggled to hear the conductor’s garbled announcements. By the time I got home, I had a…

In the nation’s capital, FurnishHopeDC has seen families sleeping on floors, living rooms missing couches and children trying to do virtual learning without desks or tables

Between 2009 and 2019, the disciplinary division of the D.C. police department sought to fire 24 police officers after its internal affairs division investigated allegations of criminal misconduct against them. Among the cases: an officer…

When a judicial vacancy occurs in D.C.’s local courts, it typically takes 15 weeks for the judicial commission established by Congress to recommend a list of three candidates to the president. The president then has 60 days to nominate a…

I keep a bumper sticker next to my desk that reads, “Don’t mess with Texas.”

Compared with the destruction of the Capitol by the British in 1814, the 2021 insurrection barely left a scratch.

My husband died because of Jan. 6, 2021. He was a D.C. Metropolitan Police officer violently beaten protecting the U.S. Capitol and the people inside.

In December, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) published its long-awaited Bus Priority Plan. The plan lays out an interactive map and high-level plan for delivering 51 bus priority projects for the District, in a nod to DC’s…