Rosa Brooks in Washington Monthly: What I Didn’t Learn at Police Academy
The only people in America not debating race and policing while I trained as a cop were my instructors.
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Washington Post Editorial Board: Federal officials are rethinking Union Station’s redevelopment plans. That’s good news.
FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION officials have announced they will go back to the drawing board before proceeding with a multibillion-dollar redevelopment of Union Station. That is welcome news. This once-in-a-generation project in the heart of…
Robert McCartney in The Post: Coronavirus cost them their jobs. Government relief meant they could pay the rent.
If you question the value of government relief in an economic crisis, listen to local stories of how such help enabled families to pay the landlord after the coronavirus cost them their jobs.
John Kelly in The Post: Memories of D.C.’s streetcars keep rolling in
All aboard another column about D.C.’s streetcars, specifically the No. 20 Washington-to-Cabin John route that stopped at the Glen Echo amusement park, the subject of last week’s column.
Theresa Vargas in The Post: They thought they’d be near the front of the line for the vaccine. Now, they don’t know where they stand.
The one reassurance that came in the 42 days Lauren Cooper watched her 17-year-old daughter, Molly, lie in a hospital bed, fighting pneumonia, was that the nurses around her were getting their first doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
Colbert King in The Post: D.C.’s vaccine appointment disparity didn’t have to happen
“As soon as this city began offering covid vaccines to residents 65 and older, George Jones, whose nonprofit agency runs a medical clinic, noticed something striking. ‘Suddenly our clinic was full of white people,’ said Mr. Jones, the head…
Valerie Graham in The Post: Tipped workers have been hit hard by the pandemic. Congress could make things even worse.
After a year like 2020, getting personal finances in order is a priority for many of us. With the coronavirus pandemic wreaking havoc on bars and restaurants, that’s a particularly stressful exercise for a bartender like me.
Mark Bucher in The Post: Put restaurants to work feeding hungry Americans
When your stomach is growling, you want to eat — immediately. That’s why the United States is a nation of restaurants. You’re hungry? Come on in. We’ll feed you a delicious meal. It’s what we do.
Philip Kennicott in The Post: Trump made an arts commission all White, all male and almost entirely mediocre
photograph taken a few years after the 1910 founding of the Commission of Fine Arts shows its seven members and the commission secretary at a moment when the capital of the United States was being radically redesigned as a grand,…
Charlette Strickland in The Washington Informer: At Hart Middle School, Heart is at the Center of In-Person Learning
Beyond the headlines of DC Public Schools opening for in-person learning is the reality of what opening has meant to me, educators, students and families at my school.
Petula Dvorak in The Post: The mid-pandemic return to school is totally weird for kids. And possibly lonely, too.
The mid-pandemic return to school is totally weird for kids. And possibly lonely, too.
Josh Lorenzo in The Post: Here’s how to finally get snow in D.C.
Deep into the winter season, with a weather system approaching, meteorologists will trot out their canned explanations for whether it will snow in D.C., Maryland and Virginia — together known as the DMV. You’ve been hearing these…
Washington Post Editorial Board: Secure the Capitol. But don’t deface it with a permanent fence.
THIS WEEK, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) announced she will introduce legislation to bar the use of federal funds to build a permanent fence around the Capitol. It really shouldn’t have to come to that. Walling the Capitol into a…
Chase F. Robinson in The Post: A different Lunar New Year celebration in D.C.
The Lunar New Year — a holiday that celebrates light from darkness, honors family ancestors and includes traditions that sweep away bad luck — begins Friday.
Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C. now has a director of gun violence prevention. It’s about time.
WHEN D.C. ended last year with more homicides than there had been in 15 years, we criticized city officials for giving mere lip service to the epidemic of gun violence instead of treating it like the public health emergency it is. So the…
Kenyan McDuffie in The Post: D.C.’s racial equity agenda demands action now
Within hours of taking the oath of office, President Biden signed an executive order to advance racial equity within the federal government, citing “the unbearable human costs of systemic racism” and pointing out the additional $5 trillion…
Robert McCartney in The Post: Historian: Black Power Movement once thrived in D.C., but recent mayors have “set aside” its goal of empowering poor.
The Black Power movement thrived in D.C. and transformed the city’s politics from the late 1960s to the 1990s. But its veterans worry that era is all but forgotten.
Washington Post Editorial Board: The cautious reopening of D.C. schools should be celebrated
“IT’S NOT a school unless we have kids here.” That was the principal of a D.C. elementary school welcoming students back to school last week for the first time since March. “I’m just super excited. I could scream at the top of my lungs.”…
Letters to the Editor of The Washington Post: Listen to Frederick Law Olmsted on the Capitol Grounds
Capitol Police want more security around the Capitol. Rather than listening to them, Congress should pay attention to Frederick Law Olmsted.
Lawrence Roberts in The Post: We can’t let one anarchic mob lead to the forever fencing-off of our arena of democracy
On a wintry day in 1968, thousands of women arrived in Washington to protest the Vietnam War. Calling themselves the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, in honor of their leader, the first woman elected to Congress, they planned to march from Union…