Opinion

Standing at a lectern, in front of a flowing fountain at the newly renovated Franklin Square, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser was extolling the work of city employees when a woman appeared.

Twenty-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown was riding a rented moped on a sidewalk and not wearing a helmet when he was spotted by D.C. police officers the night of Oct. 23, 2020. Unquestionably he was in violation of municipal regulations, but…

Lisa Fager uses the word “appalling” three times as she pans her phone’s camera across a strip of land that was once part of one of the oldest Black cemeteries in the nation’s capital.

“Friday, October 1, 2021. (Washington, DC) — Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the five identified focus areas for the 2021 Fall Crime Prevention Initiative (FCPI). These areas include: …” I interrupt this official press announcement to…

Three days after a 5-year-old girl was hit and killed last month by a van as she rode her bicycle into an intersection in Northeast Washington, a 90-year-old woman died from injuries she suffered in a car accident in Southeast. They were…

Two young children can be seen lying in the road near a crosswalk, with their backpacks tossed aside.

Yesterday, DC crews began to clear an encampment on L Street NE in NoMa. Shortly thereafter, they bulldozed a tent while someone was still inside. The man’s screams were audible. The act was horrifying, with video footage of the aftermath…

There is no guarantee, but the weather’s supposed to be fine when the Women’s March kicks off Saturday morning at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington. And I certainly don’t know how many participants will be on hand. But I can promise…

This pandemic has been especially hard for Black folks in Washington. We have lost our jobs, gotten sicker and died at higher rates than other residents.

The question 4-year-old Nathan Ballard-Means asked his mom after school Friday would not have stood out, if it weren’t for what happened about an hour later.

The zookeepers who usually feed bloodsicles and carcasses to the big cats at the National Zoo are now offering baby food and broth, keeping vigils over the sick animals and checking their coughs.

This month the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB), the region’s lead transportation planning agency, presented two important initial findings from its Climate Change Mitigation Study on what it must do to tackle…

When we listen to a recording of an old song — say, the D.C. nightclub semi-fixture Eva Foster singing “You’ll Never Know” roughly 68 years ago — something excellent happens: the air that surrounds us shakes the same way it shook in 1953.…

Public schools in Washington, D.C., have made tremendous progress in the last 14 years — most notably, in fourth-grade reading. Still, the district faces a literacy crisis that has largely gone unresolved.

Across the country, a new trend is on the rise: antisemitism on college campuses. I spent the past year reading incident after incident submitted to Jewish on Campus, and I was shocked and angered to read cases of antisemitism swept under…

Steve Bumbaugh is a former member of the D.C. Public Charter School Board, having served on the seven-member volunteer panel from 2015 until early this year. During that time, Bumbaugh visited numerous charter schools and attended many…

Growing up in the 1940s in rural Palmers Crossing, a Black community on the outskirts of Hattiesburg, Miss., Dorie and Joyce Ladner did not know that there were other youngsters beyond their town who shared their concerns. That there were…

DC can count itself in many ways to be a pro-child city: universal pre-K, paid parental leave, and diverse, accessible parks and recreation offerings. But one area where DC and many other cities could perform better is designing public…

David Van Horn went to place flowers at a makeshift memorial for Allison Hart — a 5-year-old girl who was hit and killed in a crosswalk while riding her bike — when he captured an infuriating scene on video.

In recent months, many educators have sounded a call: We can’t go back to what was normal for students and schools before the coronavirus pandemic turned education upside down. Though the pandemic has been destructive, now is the time to…