Opinion

Though D.C. continues to make progress toward ending both family and veteran homelessness, which have decreased significantly from prior years, the number of single adults experiencing chronic homelessness increased by an alarming 21…

Last week community leaders in Eckington made the case for restoring the Comprehensive Plan’s Future Land Use Map Amendments that would allow housing on the industrial land near the metros and along the trail in their neighborhood.

Alexis Hawkins was at a crossroads.

There is no room left for debate: the nearly 700,000 residents of the District of Columbia deserve statehood. In fact, for the purposes of thousands of federal laws, Washington, D.C., already acts as a state, and they perform those…

Andrew Beaujon, a senior editor at Washingtonian, says that signals from management indicated that the magazine had pulled through the pandemic in okay shape. “It was tough for us as it was for a lot of other publications, but the message…

The pandemic isn’t over — especially for many Latino and Black families. More than a year has passed since the coronavirus upended our lives, and widening racial, economic, health and educational inequities have slowed our recovery. Though…

Sitting on the rocks by Rock Creek on a summer’s day, you and your dog could be tempted to take a little wade in the water to cool off. Don’t do it.

Like many of my fellow small-business owners, I am excited about the prospect of returning to in-person work but am struggling with when and how to safely reopen our office — how many days a week, vaccination requirements, mask mandates…

Retrocession is being used to derail what Washingtonians actually want: statehood.

In the District’s rapidly gentrifying Buzzard Point neighborhood, newly arrived residents jog and bike through the dust of a cement plant, headed to and from luxury apartments along the Anacostia River in Southwest. They can rent for as…

The GOP’s arguments against D.C. statehood hinge on a paternalistic and colonial idea that Black people cannot be trusted to govern themselves.

In Washington, memorials to the major wars of the 20th century were built in inverse order. First came the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in 1982, followed by the Korean War Veterans Memorial in 1995 and the National World War II Memorial in…

The man’s windows appeared too dark.

THE D.C. police department finds itself in a terrible situation — and also in good company. Cybercriminals have attacked at least two other police departments in the United States in the past six weeks, and now the District joins their…

Republicans have contended in recent hearings that D.C. statehood is a “power grab” intended to ensure the election for life of two Democratic senators. They have ample precedent for that claim if one examines the actions of the local…

When ANC 3C passed a resolution this year in support of more density along Connecticut Avenue in Cleveland Park, it was a significant moment. The neighborhood is a textbook example of a wealthy area that has preserved its exclusivity…

At the start of her second term, Mayor Bowser declared a goal of creating 36,000 new housing units by 2025. One third of these units would be affordable to Washingtonians earning less than 80% of the District’s median family income, which…

The Founding Fathers who met in Philadelphia in 1787 to draft the Constitution did not foresee Washington, D.C., becoming a state. But times have changed, and so should our nation.

George F. Will’s column arguing the 23rd Amendment poses a barrier to congressional legislation on D.C. statehood gets the law wrong.

It started with a gnat.