Opinion

D.C. COUNCIL members in recent years haven’t had to worry about finances. A booming local economy brought in lots of tax dollars. Indeed, it seemed that council members were competing to expand services and add programs — with little…

“I got the call!”

As one of the most intensely gentrifying cities in the nation, the District cannot afford for this crisis to further fuel displacement. The D.C. Council has passed impressive measures protecting residents during this unprecedented time.…

Tracye Lynn McQuirter, a D.C.-based public health nutritionist, knows about racial disparities in health outcomes. She understands how centuries of systemic racism created and sustain the inequities. And she realizes that remedying the…

How the marketing of blackness as a prized aesthetic often leaves the city’s Black residents behind.

Over the past few weeks, our phones have been ringing off the hook with desperate calls from the families of our incarcerated friends in the D.C. Jail and Hope Village. No toilet paper. No running water. No cleaning supplies.

WHAT’S A kid to do when school is shut and hanging out with friends is off-limits? Some D.C.-area students have found an answer: 3-D-printed face shields to donate to shortage-ridden hospitals and clinics.

“Insane.” That’s what Marc Gunther thought as he looked out of the window of his downtown Bethesda, Maryland, apartment. Below him, cramped construction crews were building a headquarters and adjoining hotel for Marriott, the world’s…

African Americans are dying from COVID-19 at rates well above non-Hispanic white residents. In the District, despite being less than 47 percent of the city’s population, over 75 percent of the residents who have died due to complications…

The novel coronavirus crisis has launched Washington, D.C., into the most critical period of its short experience with elected government. If ever there was a call for well-grounded, smart leadership, it’s now. Election year 2020 will play…

I’m involved in the cleanup of the stream running the length of Klingle Valley Trail from the Tregaron Conservancy down to Rock Creek and have been surprised and dismayed at the amount of trash in that beautiful, relatively new public…

The novel coronavirus has challenged virtually every aspect of our society and even exacerbated existing problems, such as those seen in our criminal legal system. As we rush to ensure the health and safety of detainees in criminal cases,…

The emails that have appeared lately in Brandon Wu’s mailbox contain words such as “afraid” and “worried” and “please.”

Grand Master Jon O’Kelly has taught thousands of D.C. kids how to break boards and “kihap” at his Northeast Taekwondo school.

Several agencies exist to enforce rules against public corruption in D.C. government, but the results — and we’re being charitable here — have been mixed. The office that is supposed to enforce campaign finance laws lacks any real…

Many members of our workforce are experiencing reductions in income as nonessential businesses close due to COVID-19 restrictions. These businesses provided income for those who owned them and who are employed by them. Those who were…

The only way to beat the coronavirus is for everyone to adhere to the stay-at-home orders. I don’t want to lose my job, but I feel the category of “essential” personnel is far too broad.

Today, April 16, marks the date 158 years ago, when Washington, D.C., became the only American jurisdiction to end slavery by paying $1 million in ransom to slaveholders to free the 3,100 people enslaved in the nation’s capital.

Right now, in the nation’s capital, a man with intellectual disabilities is in a house, fighting covid-19, with the help of a person who chose to quarantine with him.

The pandemic has pared life down to bare necessities, forcing us to close our doors