Opinion

Jan. 6, 2021, was not the first time that a Congress in our nation’s capital was confronted with a serious domestic threat. Yes, during the War of 1812, British troops did march on Washington and set fire to the U.S. Capitol. But that was…

JUST HOURS after the inaugural festivities for President Biden concluded Wednesday night, work crews started to remove the temporary barriers and fencing that closed off key areas of the nation’s capital. Washingtonians, who saw their…

On Sep. 8, 1993, in the third-floor atrium of the D.C. Superior Court at 500 Indiana Ave. NW, Russell F. Canan was sworn in as a judge. Taking in the investiture and, safe to say, relishing it and beaming with pride, was a Roman Catholic…

“Is this the Capitol or the White House?” one of the people who came to mob the U.S. Capitol asked me.

President Donald Trump was good for business — Mark Gothard had to admit that.

I spent Jan. 20, 2009, walking in downtown D.C. dressed as Abraham Lincoln. It was Barack Obama’s first inaugural, and I’d rented a frock coat and stovepipe hat from a costume shop and sprung for my own fake beard and the spirit gum with…

Jan. 6 began with Black joy and ended with white hate — a day like too many in our history. I live blocks away from the U.S. Capitol, and I started my morning on Jan. 6 hopeful that the election of two Democratic senators from Georgia…

Many journalists and political commentators have been pessimistic about the possibility of statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. This seems to be primarily because, despite the recent Democratic victories in Georgia,…

As we recover from the shock of the events of Jan. 6, a thought has begun percolating in my mind, and the minds of many of my Capitol Hill neighbors: Are we seriously attempting to go through with this?

I stood in my living room motionless and stunned Jan. 6 as I watched an attempted coup happening in real time. Raging insurrectionists fueled by racist rhetoric and conspiracy theories had besieged and forced their way into the U.S.…

At the end of a difficult shift, bar and restaurant workers commiserate together over a time-honored hospitality tradition: the shift drink. And 2020 gave the industry a whole host of unforeseen problems over which to commiserate. It’s a…

The real estate industry, property management included, has a history of toxic and racist practices that make up its origin story of profitability. Try as I might, it’s impossible to divorce our success from this history. While we believe…

The Pentagon, not Mayor Bowser, oversees the District’s National Guard, which caused delays last week

WHEN Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman loosed his thugs on Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi, he wanted to obliterate not just the person but all that he represented. So it’s difficult to think of a more fitting tribute to…

I had planned to tell you a story about joy and creativity.

Washington, D.C., is a city self-consciously styled, since its founding, to resemble ancient Rome.

Last week, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) introduced a bill to make the nonfederal areas of D.C. the 51st state. In her introductory remarks, she noted that the bill is similar to one she introduced in 1991 and several more times over…

THERE WERE plenty of warnings about the potential for violence before last week’s murderous assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Trump seeking to disrupt congressional certification of Joe Biden’s election. Right-wing…

My older son was in second grade doing a bird report on the northern cardinal when it hit me: the absurdity of America’s security obsession.