Opinion

DRASTIC SERVICE cuts are ahead for the D.C. area’s transit system as officials face a loss of roughly a tenth of the network’s current operating revenue. For a fuller grasp of the potential meltdown facing Metro — second in subway…

A 77-year-old woman has been watching from the bay windows in her Southeast Washington home.

Wayne Turnage, D.C. deputy mayor for health and human services, is remarkably candid about his medical issues.

LIKE AIR traffic controllers, the rail controllers who staff the nerve center of the D.C. area’s Metro subway system have one overriding responsibility: to keep passengers and employees safe and alive. Or, as Metro itself put it in a list…

For a few minutes, in a tucked-away cemetery filled with crumbling markers of mostly forgotten lives, Robert Logan became more than a name on a headstone.

D.C. MAYOR Muriel E. Bowser (D) may be right that President Trump and other Republicans deliberately misinterpreted a report from the District’s committee on renaming schools, buildings and other government facilities. No one ever…

It has become clear that D.C. needs to take a new approach to addressing gun violence. Following a surge in homicides and a damning report that D.C.’s initiative to “crack down” on gun crimes operated in a discriminatory manner, targeting…

In an emergency, if one cares deeply about one's community, one does not hold back from being direct. So let me say this in no uncertain terms to my fellow Washingtonians (and beyond): right now, our democracy is on life support.

A half year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the country is wearing its world-lagging coronavirus response particularly badly. The administration is doing its level best to pretend its way around mounting a serious national response.…

The District is in the midst of a perfect storm. It arises from the convergence of a mayor struggling to cope with a covid-19 pandemic, a surge of violent crime, violence and a federally induced depressed economy; an anti-racism police…

Shattering the otherwise scorching quiet of summer in D.C., dozens and sometimes hundreds of illegal off-road vehicles have taken to swarming the capital city’s residential neighborhoods each weekend to torment and terrify local families…

Why didn’t I just raise my fist?

LESS THAN 24 hours after a young Black man was fatally shot by a D.C. police officer in Southeast Washington, officials on Thursday made public the body-camera footage of the deadly encounter.

“It’s always important to get a boguarder on your team … The boguarder is generally the guy who wins the argument. If you don’t have a big guy with a reputation, you’ll lose.”

The fragile ecology of arts is tenuous in good times, and now every arts organization is struggling for its very survival. Pitting arts groups and genres against one another is not helpful.

My mother, Marie-Marcelle Buteau Racine, emigrated to the United States in 1963 from Haiti in hopes of creating a better life for our family. She arrived to find a nation struggling to break free of injustice. That year, she joined…

Kids are gathering in the parking lots outside schools, county libraries, McDonald’s and Starbucks.

When Kiesha Davis first read what Ivanka Trump wrote about her on Twitter, what struck her most was this: The president’s daughter spelled her name right.

THE NATIONAL capital region’s Metro system, having drastically curtailed bus and subway operations since March, has shifted to near-normal service levels in recent days. Yet very little about Metro will feel or be normal, not least the…

We’re all affected by the novel coronavirus. Essential workers are stretched thin, loved ones have been lost, and the way we live has changed. We walk past empty storefronts with “closed” signs hung from our favorite shops and restaurants…