Opinion

All week, as protesters have poured into the streets to demand that police stop killing black people, President Trump has raged about the refusal of governors and mayors to order National Guard troops to quash the demonstrations.

D-Day in D.C. this 2020 was nothing like D-Day on June 6, 1944, when American-led forces landed on beaches in Normandy. The District’s D-Day actually occurred days earlier, when the White House ordered the invasion of Washington, D.C., by…

I am a 76-year-old D.C. resident of almost 50 years who has proudly voted in almost every election, including all primaries. On April 8, given my age and the pandemic, I applied online for mail-in ballots for all 2020 D.C. elections. I…

A DAY after federal agents violently chased protesters from Lafayette Square, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) was pointedly asked about President Trump. Had his words made matters worse, a reporter asked at Tuesday’s press briefing, and…

The president says he is determined to “dominate” Washington with military might. Democrats must rise to D.C.’s defense.

I’ve never had to wait more than 15 minutes to vote. In fact, I remember voting in the 2018 general election on my way to work. Of course, this election would pose some unprecedented logistical issues. There was an uprising sweeping the…

The thwack of military helicopters is our new soundtrack. Backyards smell like smoke. One little boy in my Capitol Hill neighborhood went to sleep with his Nerf gun the other night, his mother told me, “in case them come to our house.”

President Trump desecrated the sacred character of St. John’s Episcopal Church at Lafayette Square — a living presence of faith in the heart of our nation’s capital — for his cheap and foul political purposes.

THE DISTRICT, as in other places across the country, has been the scene of people protesting the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. There is added attention when such scenes play out in the nation’s capital — both…

Y’all saw the fires, right?

Why in the world would President Trump, in the midst of the unrest roiling our nation’s capital, tweet a demonstrable lie about the city’s mayor, Muriel E. Bowser, and the D.C. police? Praising the U.S. Secret Service for their handling of…

The novel coronavirus has changed the nature of transportation in the District, and choices made now may reshape mobility in our city permanently. Unless the District prioritizes safe alternatives, it may become even more car-centric than…

The Washington Post isn’t openly endorsing Evans this time around, as it has for almost three decades. But the influential paper is helping Evans’s candidacy in less obvious ways.

Anyone who has followed sports gambling’s sluggish stumble to legality in Washington was bound to worry about the final product once it went live. The city initially hoped to have sports gambling ready in time for the 2019 NFL season, but…

Not much has given me a sense of routine lately. But once a week, I pour myself a glass of wine, brush up on the week’s news and then press “join meeting” on Zoom.

The letter began, “The United States federal government has received information indicating immoral conduct on your part.” It demanded, “Have you ever engaged in acts of anal copulation, sometimes referred to as sodomy or anal sodomy? If…

Gerald, a childhood friend from Washington, D.C., is serving a life sentence at the United States Penitentiary in Atwater, a prison 15 miles from my home in Merced, California.

As a restaurateur, I know recipes are about balance. Touting only one ingredient is like using a soundbite to convey the whole picture. Executing an amazing dish requires the right mix of ingredients, plus mise en place, procedure,…

The novel coronavirus pandemic has significantly affected many aspects of daily life for D.C. residents. Students and teachers have been out of schools since the middle of March; restaurants and bars have had to close or reduce their…

Things have really changed in my house. Most days, I wake up at about 7 a.m. I get ready for the day by eating breakfast, brushing my teeth and putting on my clothes. Four days each week, I log into third grade. I mean, I log on to video…