Opinion

Two miles north of the U.S. Capitol building, around the corner from the African American Civil War museum, sits the world’s oldest institution primarily dedicated to the training of Black medical professionals.

What a difference a shocking building collapse makes in the finely tuned political minds of the Bowser administration. Only seven months ago, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) was praising her Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs…

Those northeastern gusts of wind y’all felt over the weekend? Those were about 10 to 15 knots of exhale.

The word “book” doesn’t quite capture what St. Clair Detrick-Jules has spent the past four years trying to complete.

With two-thirds of adult Americans having received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the quest for herd immunity turns to vaccinating the harder-to-reach communities — including many communities of color, which remain…

Is Georgetown’s history stained as a port in the transatlantic slave trade? Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) introduced a bill for a memorial to Africans brought to the town’s waterfront in the 1700s. The theory lacks direct evidence to…

The little girl celebrated her sixth birthday silently, on life support — something no child should ever have to experience.

For 17 years, a federally funded K-12 scholarship program has given thousands of poor children in D.C. the opportunity to attend private schools and the chance to go on to college. And for many of those 17 years, the program has been in…

The announcement that Nikole Hannah-Jones would join the faculty at Howard University pushed some post-college-age adults to express regret that they weren’t younger.

WTOP traffic reporter Dave Dildine explains how he got caught in the tornado Thursday night and describes what he witnessed

Jan. 6 attack exposed how lack of representation hurts District residents

DCRA and Kennedy Street have a history.

Last month, we organized the first ever “Sidewalk Palooza” to draw attention to pedestrian infrastructure and pedestrian safety issues in DC and the disparity between the city’s response time to these problems versus road infrastructure…

The Library of Congress is our national library, yet its name does not embody that fact. It is our oldest national cultural institution, and debates about its name have swirled since its founding. The headline of an 1897 article in the…

Vaccines are helping us protect ourselves from the coronavirus, but what will protect our children from a widening opportunity gap and the mental health challenges exacerbated by all that we’ve lost over the past 15 months?

The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB), an agency charged with setting funding and project priorities for Greater Washington’s transportation sector, voted last month to commit to a new long-range plan that better…

The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to ban the sale of all flavored tobacco products — including fruity e-cigarette liquids, candy-tinged cigars and menthol cigarettes — entering a thicket of racially charged controversy and emerging with a…

The teenagers show up each Saturday to explore patches of nature in a city where it’s easy to forget so much greenery exists.

FINISHING TOUCHES are being put on plans to modernize Union Station and remake it into a world-class transit hub. The project has been more than a decade in the making and is seen as a singular economic and transportation opportunity for…

As though they didn’t have enough pressing national issues on their plates, five Republican congressmen — Glenn Grothman (Wis.), Ralph Norman (S.C.), Bob Gibbs (Ohio), Pat Fallon and Ronny Jackson (both of Texas) — have introduced…