Opinion

The D.C. Council is considering banning the sale of all flavored tobacco — without any public review or testimony. This lack of transparency is bad enough, but when you look at what this bill would do to small businesses and neighborhoods,…

FOR ONLY the second time in the nation’s history, the Senate this week held a hearing on whether to grant statehood to the District of Columbia. Not much new was said, and it is unlikely the testimony will change any votes. Nonetheless,…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) 2022 proposed budget slowly but steadily advances the largest transportation equity project in D.C. in nearly 30 years: the extension of the streetcar to the Benning Road Metro Station in Ward 7.

They just conceal what is really a partisan fight.

This is the end-of-an-era story that really, really doesn’t want to be written.

It’s time to shrink the federal district and add a 51st star to the flag.

I once believed that with enough public understanding of the road rules and infrastructure, safety would naturally follow. Now I believe we must totally transform our streets.

One of the most interesting and potentially consequential rearrangements of human affairs in the post-coronavirus world will be people’s relationship to work, their workplaces and how they get there. The Biden administration is considering…

Last month, the D.C. Council passed an updated Comprehensive Plan for the District that the council members and Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) hope will pave the way toward more affordable housing, more inclusive growth, and streets that are…

Hair a mess, clothes dirty, Len Williams felt seen.

DC’s historic preservation system is well set up to preserve historic buildings and properties, but ill prepared to formally recognize other types of history. A simple reform could go a long way to resolve that.

When injustices occur in criminal cases, our institutions — prosecutors, police departments, crime laboratories — often treat it as a “bad apple” problem. Institutions blame the individual and fail to look within the institution for the…

The D.C. Council is in high dudgeon over the possibility of D.C. Public Schools requiring volunteers to undergo drug testing. The offense, cited in a unanimously signed letter from lawmakers to Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee? The…

It was 3 a.m. one day last week and Nate Giles was back on the air at WPFW-FM. He’d taken off several weeks to care for his wife, Rosemary, who had been ill. She would die May 23 at their home in D.C.

Many have tried, all have failed. But yet another group is trying to promote cross-border cooperation within greater Washington to overcome our region’s chronic east-west economic divide.

Moisés Hernández Delgado loved to dance with his daughter.

A group of Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners and community leaders (including myself) are hosting a series of pedestrian safety walks dubbed Sidewalk Palooza to draw attention to discrepancies in the District Department of…

As two Virginia community colleges — Patrick Henry and Dabney S. Lancaster — plan to keep their names that honor a former enslaver and a segregationist, I now know more than ever that D.C.’s H.D. Woodson High School, my alma mater, was…

“WHAT’S THE point of spending millions of dollars on a crime lab if people don’t trust its findings and won’t use it?” That is the question we posed in 2015 about the District’s Consolidated Forensic Laboratory; unfortunately, it is time…

I was a judge in a recent essay contest for D.C. public and charter school students in fourth through ninth grades. The theme was about the challenges they faced during the pandemic, and I was reminded that the past year has put adult-size…