Opinion

There’s no fool like an old fool. And when it comes to fighting for our equal rights, it seems we are slow learners.

Neil Albert’s sudden resignation as the chair of the D.C. Housing Authority board of commissioners last week ends nothing. If anything, it ought to mark the beginning of what should have begun months ago: an unconditional investigation of…

Maybe you’ve seen one of the black and white stickers.

It is late October, and I just closed my back door to shut out the fast-flying Asian tiger mosquitoes that have become a persistent nuisance in D.C., where I live. A warming world has allowed this invasive species to expand across the…

“We weren’t going to say you are not good enough, not smart enough . . . . Every child should be helped.” That is why the nonprofit that Argelia Rodriguez was asked to head 22 years ago to encourage D.C. public high school students to go…

My four-year-old son Nathan asks me almost every day to “promise that won’t get hit by a car again.” Last month, Nathan was struck while with his mother in the crosswalk closest to our Dupont Circle home by the driver of an SUV who ran…

Stray bullets. They killed a 6-year-old crossing the street, a Peace Corps official out with his wife for a nice dinner in a buzzy part of town, a proud mother in town to see her son’s start at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Black excellence is more than words.

In 1998, the District of Columbia Public Schools were doing such a bad job preparing students for college that when local business executives asked how many graduating seniors went to college the year before, district leaders didn’t know. …

I’ve spent my career helping residents of our region realize their dreams of homeownership. And while not everyone can afford to buy a home, everyone deserves to have a home.

A recurring problem caused a derailment. Why wasn’t this addressed sooner?

The recently announced Coordinated Assistance and Resources for Encampments (CARE) pilot program has been met with criticism from unhoused D.C. residents and the greater D.C. community. This program lists its objective as offering…

All drivers eventually face a day of reckoning — a testing time when their abilities, the degree of their success or failure as a motorist, will be revealed in triumphant or cataclysmic fashion.

The Justice Department has confirmed it has received a referral from a federal judge for an investigation into whether the D.C. jail is violating the civil rights of Capitol insurrection defendants. There is merit to the judge’s request,…

The Metro bosses might as well be in Dana Broome’s bedroom before dawn every morning this week, screaming him awake way too early.

There are no rats. That was my first thought when I stepped into a D.C. Metro station after riding through New York’s subway system for years.

One of the Washington transit agency’s most closely held secrets about its rail service in recent years is that the wheels have been coming off — literally.

On Oct. 12, near Arlington Cemetery, a Metro subway car partially derailed, forcing about 200 passengers to walk about 600 yards through a tunnel to reach the station exit. At that, we got off lightly, for the accident was the train’s…

Craig Saffoe was at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo’s big-cats exhibit when he saw the man.

The upcoming political season in the District could well become a seminal one. The old narrative, adopted nearly five decades ago with the advent of home rule — that this town is politically under the thumb of Black, mostly male Democratic…