Opinion

Over the summer, the planned D.C. streetcar extension into Ward 7 nearly lost funding. An initiative to defund the project was defeated in an 8-to-5 vote in the D.C. Council. With one of the streetcar’s supporters vacating his council seat…

Only one thing has united D.C. residents as much as a national trophy from the Nats, Mystics or Caps.

A few weeks into the covid-19 pandemic, the Gaudenzia residential drug treatment facility in the District took a hit: 13 patients and 11 employees tested positive for the virus.

“THIS IS historically an unloved building that people are ambivalent about. It’s never been a friendly building.” That is what D.C’s chief librarian, Richard Reyes-Gavilan, once said about the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.…

“We are today at war. It is not a war that you can see. . . . It is a war of ideologies. I believe our greatest weapon in today’s kind of war is not our wealth, not our missiles, not our atom bombs, but rather it is the ideal of ‘freedom…

Before the global pandemic changed everything about her daily routine, one mother was able to hide the abuse she was enduring while her young sons were at school.

As Election Day nears, conservative lawmakers like Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming have warned that Democrats plan to “stack the Senate” by admitting new states to the union if they win control of the presidency and Congress. We certainly…

In 2003, Bella Evangelista, a respected performer and transgender woman was shot to death on a D.C. street. Five years later, Tony Hunter, an openly gay man, was on his way to a bar when he was assaulted and ultimately died due to a…

Renée Fleming and Vanessa Williams sang together Saturday night under the roof of the Kennedy Center Opera House — the first indoor musical event at the nation’s performing arts showplace since the March 13 shutdown due to covid-19…

The movement to rename schools, including Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest Washington, has been growing recently. In June, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said she reluctantly supports changing the name.

A 13-year-old girl sits in her home on the Northwest side of the nation’s capital, taps on her screen to get to class — and feels relieved.

Starting the first week in October, ballots for the Nov. 3 general election will be mailed to all registered voters in D.C. The presidential election has dominated attention, but the ballots will also include contests for important local…

D.C. MAYOR Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) plan for D.C. schools to start providing in-person learning by the end of this month has some teachers, parents and students worried about health risks. Concerns that reopening schools could speed the…

Two weeks into the school year, 6-year-old Ambrose I. Lane III has already become adept at remote learning. From his home in Southeast Washington, he can use a laptop to log into his D.C. public school’s virtual classroom and get to work. …

On the day in 1954 when the Supreme Court decided in Brown v. Board of Education that “separate but equal” schools were unconstitutional, it also ruled in Bolling v. Sharpe that segregated public schools in the District of Columbia denied…

In the storm of crises (covid-19, the recession, Supreme Court vacancy, etc.), it’s easy to overlook the fact that the United States is engaged in the most intensive purge ever of our common historical memory.

RBG died days after DC announced plans to jettison Wilson's name. She would be an ideal namesake.

On Tuesday night, the local go-go group Pure Elegance assembled on an outdoor stage in Southeast D.C. — or, for those quarantining at home, on a glowing computer screen — for a live-streamed concert designed to mobilize the crowd,…

My life changed on a perfectly sunny October morning in 2018 when my mother stepped out to buy a hairbrush and never came back. She was struck by the driver of a pickup truck while crossing at 15th and H streets NW, with a new hairbrush in…

“Wagner Opticians,” she said, answering her mobile phone with a crisp office voice.