Opinion

Next week will commemorate the 173rd anniversary of one of the most courageous acts in antebellum America that most Americans have never heard of. It occurred here in the nation’s capital on April 15, 1848.

There are many students who crowd my memories of the years I’ve served as a social worker in D.C.’s public schools; none more so than one former student of mine. He came to Anacostia High School after a traumatic situation at his previous…

How should prosecutors treat nonviolent misdemeanors? As a result of the covid-19 pandemic, proceedings in most nonviolent misdemeanor cases in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia were paused last year. In a Post op-ed …

I am a long-time resident of Southeast who is deeply concerned that the amended Comprehensive Plan pending before the D.C. Council will increase racial inequity under the guise of ending it.

Thirteen-year-old Gabriel Molina recalls the day the police showed up at his soccer practice.

At an urban garden in Southeast Washington, Kwesi Osaze Billups was tending to bunches of rich, red-veined Swiss chard. Kneeling and staring approvingly at the nutritious bounty, the 21-year-old cleared away some debris then picked a few…

Vaccine hunters like me have found relief where supply, for whatever reason, is greater than demand

SINCE THE U.S. Capitol Police was founded in 1828, seven officers have died in the line of duty. Two of those deaths occurred this year within the space of less than three months. That fact underscores the increased danger that confronts…

In a deadly pattern we’ve seen before, coronavirus infections are rising across the region but area elected officials are ignoring health experts’ advice to tighten restrictions on public gatherings and businesses to thwart the disease’s…

THE KILLING of George Floyd last year at the hands of Minneapolis police spotlighted the damage that unjust policing has caused to Black neighborhoods, and there seemed to be general agreement about the need for serious reform. How to go…

The debate about the proposed changes to the D.C. Comprehensive Plan and Future Land Use Map is now, appropriately, fully joined.

On my first day living in Washington, I crossed the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge and saw the best of the city laid out like a panorama of postcard views — the Kennedy Center, the Washington and Lincoln memorials, and the necklace of green…

Young people at low risk of having serious cases of coronavirus may be crowding out those at higher risk in D.C.'s vaccination program.

For nearly a year, the D.C. Jail has been on a coronavirus lockdown. Inmates have lived in their cells for 23 hours a day. They are not permitted to see their families or friends. Even interaction with attorneys is sparse. One inmate…

Opponents of D.C. statehood have at most three arguments that deserve any respect. They involve the Founders’ intent, retrocession to Maryland and the 23rd Amendment.

Many activists for DC statehood have a new message for Democrats: add the measure to the broader package of voting reforms being considered in Congress, including H.R.1 and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

“They plan to make the District of Columbia a state — that would give them two new Democratic senators,” said then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), explaining his opposition to D.C. statehood in a Fox News interview two…

REPUBLICANS IN Congress did not use to make the case that residents of the District of Columbia deserved no representation in Congress; the issue was only how to do it. “Let’s be real, how can you argue with a straight face that D.C.…

I am an Indigenous female elder descended from the Pamunkey and the Tauxenent (Dogue) tribes. Both tribal nations were historic members of the Powhatan Paramountcy, which stretched all the way from today’s state of North Carolina to the…

Black Americans are dying at nearly twice the rate of White Americans from the coronavirus. In the nation’s capital, about 75 percent of coronavirus deaths are among Black Americans — despite making up less than half of the population. So,…