Opinion

Our education system is grappling with an unprecedented challenge for an entire generation of students. School closures as a result of the pandemic have led to massive learning loss and social disconnection — most acutely affecting our…

You’ve heard my story before, or something like it. You’ve seen it on TV or in a movie: A lost kid, a life forever altered by a first encounter with our nation’s criminal justice system. It happens far too often, to far too many lost boys…

He remembers the moment it came to him, about 10 years ago — his dream.

Eliminating another positive platform during COVID will lead to more violence in the community

THE DEVASTATING effects of the pandemic have created daunting challenges for the public education system in D.C. Getting all students safely back in the classroom. Addressing student learning loss. Dealing with mental health issues…

Our small delegation of World Bank executive directors arrived in Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) close to midnight on the last leg of a week-long visit to India to review bank-supported development projects. En route from the airport to…

I am an 83-year-old great-great-grandmother and president of the Brookland Manor/Brentwood Village Residents Association. As a civil rights activist, I marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and in the years since, I’ve organized…

WHERE IT concerns the safety of the Washington area’s Metrorail system, there have been so many red flashing lights in recent years — mishaps involving fatalities and injuries, as well as blistering reports from the transit system’s…

It has been a year since D.C. Superior Court’s misdemeanor courtrooms closed. With the exception of domestic violence charges, almost no one is confined at the D.C. Jail for a misdemeanor today. This experiment in “decarceration” is the…

As a Black state lawmaker, I see statehood for Washington, D.C., and its mostly racial minority residents as a racial justice and civil rights issue.

A Texas-scale power blackout or water crisis is unlikely in the Washington region, but neither is impossible given the increasing severity of storms, freezes and other weather events owing to climate change.

Across D.C., residents and leaders alike were quick to realize a simple truth about the coronavirus pandemic’s impact: Black communities were hit the hardest, especially in the number of related fatalities. A similar story can be found…

One of the most fascinating aspects of D.C. residency is watching publicity-hungry members of Congress try to make a name for themselves at the city’s expense. On that score, Mike Lee, Utah’s Republican senior senator, is becoming…

Five days after it was announced that a “7-foot non-scalable fence” was going up around the U.S. Capitol, President Donald Trump traveled to Texas and stood by his border wall.

In 1821, Lynch and Polly Wormley started a horse-and-buggy taxi service in the District. They’d come from Albemarle, Va., after being freed from enslavement by their plantation owners. Their business included a stable, with living quarters…

“Who’s in charge? Who was ultimately responsible for the safety of the Capitol?” Those were the questions asked by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) Tuesday after the Senate concluded its first hearing into the breakdowns in intelligence-gathering…

Two years ago, District high school student Isabella Ramos-Bracho took a class on the Great Migration. The most memorable part: meeting an actual Great Migrator. That was Edith Crutchfield, who was among the more than 5 million African…

The recently intensified debate over how to reform policing offers two choices that seem impossible to reconcile.

THEIR NAMES are not as familiar as that of Brian D. Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who lay in honor in the Capitol Rotunda in recognition of his heroism battling the rioters who swarmed the halls of Congress on Jan. 6. But D.C.…

Nearly 9,000 students across D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) began learning in person this month for the first time since March. Opening school buildings is a major step forward for bringing a sense of normal to student lives. But it’s also…