Opinion

This year draws to a close in our nation’s capital with attention focused on two of its most disreputable public officials: Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans, and President of the United States Donald Trump — an odd, and infamous,…

My wife and I moved to the District 14 years ago searching for a walkable city with a robust public transportation system. Because my wife and I both were working downtown, we bought a condo near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.…

I met Frazier O’Leary in 1998 when I was following one of his students at what was then known as Cardozo High School in the District. I was trying to figure out why the teen was doing so well. The answer in large part was O’Leary, her…

The Newseum is a period piece. During a recent visit, passing by its early satellite truck, its fragments of the Berlin Wall, its homages to legendary broadcasters and war correspondents, it was hard not to feel a twinge of nostalgia for…

Attend a Narcotics Anonymous meeting in Washington, and you’ll see the illicit drug scourge being vanquished — one roomful of recovering addicts at a time.

Two important events happened in Steve Pappas’s life on March 6, 2015: His daughter turned 6, and he ended his career as a D.C. police officer.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) recently released statewide data on students’ reading and math proficiency rates between 2017 and 2019, and the District “made some of the country’s biggest gains.” There is much to…

One major impediment to substantive criminal-justice reform is getting people to understand our legal system’s complicated structural flaws. When it comes to structural racism, for example, the idea that a system can be racially biased…

ON THE POST’S editorial page, perhaps no writer on state and local topics has spilled more ink, or commanded greater expertise, than Robert L. Asher, who died Friday at age 83. “Some think I have power,” said Katharine Graham, The Post’s…

D.C. Public Schools received well-deserved praise for its recent scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a.k.a. “The Nation’s Report Card.” Of the 27 urban districts that took the test in 2019, DCPS improved the…

For the first time in the 45-year history of local self-governance, 12 members of the city’s unicameral legislature unanimously voted to expel their remaining, and absent, colleague.

The drama in the swamp is thick right now — investigations, hearings, expulsion, corruption, ethics violations — a new twist every day for a nicotine-stain blond, pro-business white man usually seen wearing a red tie.

The comeuppance for the incestuous nature of City Hall politics finally came calling Tuesday afternoon — and aims to boot D.C. Council member Jack Evans out the door.

D.C. COUNCIL member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) has during his long tenure in public office made contributions to the Washington area that helped make it a better place to live and work. He aided the recovery of the city’s fiscal health, the…

When a 13-year-old boy found out earlier this year that a bullet lodged in his spine was going to leave him paralyzed from his belly button down, he didn’t scream. He didn’t cry. He didn’t even sulk in the way other children his age do…

In the District, doctors don’t easily talk to patients about nutrition. That’s also true in other cities, but you’d think that health- care providers in the nation’s capital would be doing everything possible — talk, scream, whisper,…

CLARENCE VENABLE, a 40-year-old with young children, was shot to death Nov. 22 in Southeast Washington, becoming the city’s 152nd homicide this year. His murder got more attention than is usual in a city that sadly has become too calloused…

As the story goes, Jack Bubis was still in his mother’s womb when she stepped into a bingo hall in Montreal, saw the jackpot and had a feeling it would be hers. She had arrived late, but instead of slipping into a seat in the back of the…

If you travel past the U.S. Capitol and head along East Capitol Street, you will pass the diverse neighborhoods of Lincoln Park, Kingman Park, Barney Circle and Hill East. But before you reach the Anacostia River, you will encounter a…

The District is a magnet for some of the nation’s wealthiest and most powerful people. It’s also home to world-class museums, top-flight thinkers and the national headquarters for many of our nation’s most prominent nonprofits.