Opinion

I’m not sure how else to describe it. I’m just sort of Muriel’ed out.

Sam the Barista is not pleased that his mayor gave him a new task at work, one that’s a lot harder than getting the foam just right on a cardamom latte.

Raed and Alli Jarrar admit they don’t fit the profile of what many people think of when someone says gun owner.

A hemmed-in territory surrounded by a sea of unbounded states.

It has been 17 years since a D.C. advocacy group found that the giant insurance company CareFirst was hoarding excess surpluses and shirking its responsibility as a nonprofit insurer to provide services that benefited the community. “Its…

The Justice Department announced that about 400 residents of the Central Detention Facility (CDF) at the D.C. jail will be transferred to the U.S. penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., because of the results of an inspection conducted by the…

Recent reports of squalid conditions in D.C. jail are unfortunately not new. But they should finally serve as a clarion call to D.C. leaders to take bold action. Instead of making modest improvements to our crumbling jail, D.C. must use…

The party Tomás Banks attended occurred more than three decades ago, and while time has smudged some of his memories of that day, he hasn’t forgotten the birthday card he handed a friend.

For two months, Howard University students have been protesting what they describe as unacceptable living conditions on campus, including unsanitary dorms, a lack of housing or residential planning for freshmen, and underrepresentation of…

Here on this patch of land where thousands of homeless children slept, ate and waited for a better life, developers want to erect a playground named for Relisha Rudd.

Conditions were so deplorable that the U.S. Marshals Service decided to transfer 400 inmates facing charges in federal cases or awaiting placement in federal prisons.

Eric Weaver has sat on both sides of a D.C. jail cell.

Standing pools of human sewage. Water shut off for days. Cooked meals served cold and congealed. An overpowering stench of urine and feces.

There’s a lot of money in local politics, and much of it comes from wealthy donors. But with the implementation of the Fair Elections Program, D.C. is seeking to change who is funding elections.

D.C. Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) is reintroducing his signature Metro for DC legislation, which would create a “transit equity fund” intended to expand transit services to underserved communities. The fund would expand DC…

There’s a new environmentalist in town, and she could become bigger than Greta Thunberg with America’s little girls.

One might think the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities would be the city government’s agency least likely to be embroiled in the toxic issue of race. After all, the commission’s mandate is to engage and support District programs in…

Since 2007, when the D.C. Council voted to give the mayor control over the public school system, there have been periodic attempts to claw back the historic reform. Past efforts have failed, but those who want to undermine mayoral control…

We never celebrated Día de los Muertos when I was a child.

When D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) ran for reelection in 2018, she faced only nominal opposition. She breezed to victory with more than 75 percent of the vote in both the critical Democratic primary and the general election, becoming the…