Opinion

Government did more for the restaurant industry over this past COVID-Year-from-Hell than anyone would have expected in a capitalist economy. Let’s not waste this opportunity to reinvent ourselves. We need to dump the old churn-and-burn…

In response to the D.C. Council’s vote to modestly increase taxes on high-income earners in D.C., business leaders and commentators have drummed up fanciful stories of D.C.’s high-income earners fleeing for low-tax areas in the suburbs.…

The first meeting of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was perhaps the least surprising but most important session the panel will hold. As the debate on the facts of Jan. 6 descends into another war of…

A week. That’s about all D.C.’s gunfire problem got from the nation’s conscience.

Gunfire erupted in my city on Thursday night, at the intersection of 14th and Riggs streets NW. For those unfamiliar with Washington, 14th Street serves as the main commercial artery for some of the city’s densest neighborhoods, and Riggs…

Cathy Feingold doesn’t know who the women were or what lives they had led.

It somehow seems fitting that Saturday’s memorial service for Karen Hastie Williams will be held at St. John’s Church at Black Lives Matter Plaza, in the heart of our nation’s capital. Her presence in St. John’s — her home parish — helps…

A few hours after the international broadcast of gunplay outside Nationals Park on July 17, and one day after the horrible shooting death of 6-year-old Nyiah Courtney in Southeast Washington, Northwest D.C.'s Ward 4 experienced a 77-minute…

Why isn’t the first 20-mile section of the C&O Canal towpath, with Mile 0 in our nation’s capital, maintained and repaired to the level seen in other, northern sections?

D.C. Council members voted unanimously in December to create a commission that would undertake a comprehensive review of the city’s tax code. It was a recognition of the need for careful study and a thoughtful approach in bringing change…

Eight-year-old Faris Nunn knows that millions of people have clicked on a video that shows her talking, but she doesn’t fully understand why.

More than a half century ago, leaders across Maryland, Virginia and D.C. joined to lay a foundation for a transportation network to move people and goods across the region.

For the past 24 years, the fates of D.C.’s incarcerated residents seeking parole and returning citizens accused of violating conditions of their release lie in the hands of the U.S. Parole Commission (USPC), an aloof and unaccountable…

Within earshot of D.C. police, a 6-year-old girl was fatally shot as she walked home in Southeast Washington Friday night. The drive-by shooting also left her mother and four other adults injured. In the nation’s capital, gun violence is…

A rain delay on a baseball game — because it was raining bullets outside — is so very American.

Take a walk down the streets of D.C. today, and you’ll quickly notice that neighborhoods have changed. Well over a year into the pandemic, and many small businesses are still struggling to survive.

As the terrified fans and ballplayers scrambling for cover at Nationals Park on Saturday evening discovered, the District’s gun violence, quaintly called a “public health crisis” by Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and D.C. Council judiciary…

Did you think for one second that the highly publicized March 23 carjacking of Uber Eats delivery driver Mohammad Anwar in Southeast D.C., which resulted in a horrific crash that left Anwar dead and two girls, age 13 and 15, under arrest,…

Everyone is anxious for schools to reopen this fall. After more than a year of being away from our school buildings because of the public health pandemic, it’s imperative that students and teachers get back to school.