Hannah Giorgis in The Atlantic: D.C. Statehood Is More Urgent Than Ever
“The real fraud is that we call ourselves a democracy yet deny the people of our capital political representation.”
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Brian McEntee in Slate: What Was the Point of Fortress D.C.?
Security swallowed Washington’s public spaces so its protectors could stop a real threat. They couldn’t.
Washington Post Editorial Board: Congress should grant D.C. control over its own National Guard
AFTER THE D.C. National Guard was used to forcefully clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square last summer so that President Trump could stage a photo op, legislation was introduced in Congress that would have given D.C.’s mayor…
Rosa Brooks in The Post: No one watches the Capitol Police closely. No wonder they failed.
The response to the mob was baffling and appalling — and years in the making.
Washington Post Editorial Board: The catastrophic security failures at the U.S. Capitol must be investigated
WEDNESDAY’S ASSAULT on the U.S. Capitol, and on American democracy, was instigated and condoned by President Trump. He should be held to account, and the rioters themselves prosecuted. Yet accountability cannot end there, nor can…
Christina Cauterucci in Slate: What D.C. Residents Continue to Endure
Without any representation, we host the government and all that comes with it.
Greg Roney in The Post: Our Capitol perseveres
I have nothing to add that has not already been said about the events that transpired on Wednesday, other than these observations from my many hours of providing tours of the U.S. Capitol and the thoughts I have every time I have walked…
Neil Flanagan in The Architect’s Newspaper: Pushing Past Mies
Mecanoo’s renovation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library works through the nuances of the Mies’s signature style
Petula Dvorak in The Post: How Trump supporters turned one mild-mannered D.C. lawyer into the angry #guyonporch
Peter Tracey, a 60-year-old White lawyer in D.C., admits he was triggered.
Petula Dvorak in The Post: Did you see the law enforcement response to the rioters taking over the Capitol? This is what White privilege looks like.
Everyone — millions of people — saw this coming.
Theresa Vargas in The Post: A trip to the grocery store ended with unexpected coronavirus vaccine doses for one D.C. couple
Before this week, Franck Le Bousse wasn’t sure where he stood in the long line of people waiting, and hoping, to get the coronavirus vaccine.
Colbert King in The Post: Are Washington’s covid-19 policies as fair as they can be?
“Yes, but is it fair?” Chief Justice Earl Warren, known for his innate sense of justice, would lean forward and put that question to lawyers who laid out well-reasoned legal cases in oral argument.
Karen Attiah in The Post: Don’t ‘better explain’ the Emancipation Memorial. Put up monuments to Black people instead.
“What I want to see before I die,” Frederick Douglass wrote, “is a monument representing the negro, not couchant on his knees like a four-footed animal, but erect on his feet like a man.”
Mark Moran in The Post: The tough task of reopening D.C. schools
Building confidence at the grass-roots level and getting “buy-in” from the community before trying something difficult seem like two of those fundamentals that politicians are supposed to have absorbed in Politics 101. When it comes to the…
Petula Dvorak in The Post: If 2020 had an address, it would be right here in D.C.
The crowds are gone for now, but the cold wind is whipping the flags that remain on Black Lives Matter Plaza — rainbow ones, anti-Trump ones, American ones — marking an ongoing momentum on the last day of a calamitous year.
Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C. needs to change how it discloses information about child-abuse deaths
AT SOME point, the D.C. Child Fatality Review Committee will examine the deaths of Gabriel Eason and Makenzie Anderson, two children beaten to death this year, allegedly by caretakers. In 2-year-old Gabriel’s case, his mother and her…
Stefan Fatsis in The Post: The complicated racial history of the high school D.C. is renaming
The best choice to replace Woodrow Wilson is his antithesis: the school’s first female Black teacher
Petula Dvorak in The Post: Three prophets who showed me the beauty of America — away from Capitol Hill
Wise men and prophets come in lots of different packages.
Colbert King in The Post: You don’t have to be in a church to pray or feel spiritually nourished
Readers of this column know that I’m not one to start trouble. The last thing I want, especially during this Christmas season, is to get crosswise with Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington,…
Courtland Milloy in The Post: It’s time to help make peace. That starts with education.
Noted pacifist Colman McCarthy didn’t get to teach his peace studies class at American University this semester because of coronavirus school disruptions. So, I called him for a crash course to share with readers, figuring we could all use…