Opinion

Over the past four months, enormous progress has been made in the fight against the coronavirus. More than 140 million individuals in the United States have been vaccinated. The number of daily infections is less than a quarter of its…

I grew up on some of the meanest streets of D.C., the child of a man who rotated through prison and abandoned me and my mother. The few visits I had with him taught me the wrong kind of lessons. When my mother sent me to him for a…

Jessica Amaya Torres knew she needed to write an essay for her high school English class, but she was finding it hard to concentrate on homework.

Largely overlooked in President Biden’s economic recovery and infrastructure plan is a sweeping effort to reconnect communities divided by urban highways. The $20 billion in aid Biden proposed in his American Jobs Plan would be a historic…

There’s a basic rule that many political activists accept as given: Before you can convince voters your solution to a problem is the right one, you have to get them to agree there’s a problem in the first place. Which is why those who have…

It was my third week in Georgetown, and I was taking an evening stroll around town; one cobblestone step after the other, marveling at the red brick rowhouses and the proud American flags. Then, as I took a turn on Prospect Street NW, I…

The Democratic-controlled Congress will soon try to transform part of the District of Columbia, which today is about one-eighteenth the size of Rhode Island but 18.9 percent larger than Denver International Airport, into a state. This will…

Six years after Mayor Muriel Bowser committed DC to the goal of ensuring that “no lives are lost on our streets or at our intersections,” DC is on pace for its deadliest year of traffic violence in over a decade.

Rep. Nancy Mace on Tuesday offered reporters her opinion on why D.C. should not be granted statehood.

Upon learning to read while enslaved, Frederick Douglass began his great journey of emancipation, as such journeys always begin, in the mind. Defying unjust laws, he read in secret, empowered by the wisdom of contemporaries and classics…

Two Windsor, Va., police officers harassed Black U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Caron Nazario at a traffic stop in a video that sparked national outrage. Critics say the policemen are lucky the incident happened in December instead of this spring. In…

Lindsey Brittain Collins discovered Nannie in the same way most people do: unintentionally.

The rhetoric around the Smithsonian’s renovation of the Hirshhorn Museum’s sculpture garden is officially heated.

More than 10 years ago, a New York gubernatorial candidate became an Internet sensation with a campaign that declared the rent was “Too Damn High.” In the D.C. region, we can relate to rents that are still too high. Affordable housing…

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed countless faults and cracks within American society. As the debate on reopening schools continues, one of these cracks is how to educate children, particularly those most in need, and how to ensure that…

“CONGRESS ITSELF is the target on the 6th.” That explicit warning was delivered to the Capitol Police by the agency’s own intelligence unit just three days before the Capitol insurrection by a mob of pro-Trump supporters. Others also…

Imagine a metropolis with a lush canopy of nearly 2 million trees, one of the best job markets and one of the most educated workforces in the nation, a sprawling public transportation network, a homegrown style of music, some of the best…

I’m the proud granddaughter of two courageous sugarcane farmer workers from south Louisiana. In 1972, Gustave Rhodes and a fellow worker filed a class-action lawsuit against the then-secretary of Agriculture for wages owed by Louisiana’s…

On Wednesday, the House Oversight and Reform Committee will mark up House Resolution 51, the pending D.C. statehood bill. The bill, which has enough co-sponsors to pass the House and nearly enough for the Senate, given filibuster…

If President Biden doesn’t take notice of his case, Tony Lewis Sr. could die in prison.