Opinion

REVELATIONS OF misconduct already have cost D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) his seat on the Metro board and the chairmanship of a powerful council committee. His colleagues have voted to reprimand him, and the city’s ethics board…

On Nov. 13, a D.C. Council committee will hold a hearing on legislation that would extend the city’s rent stabilization program for another 10 years. While the legislation as introduced is simple, it has prompted a broader conversation…

She’s probably sleeping. Terrina Riley remembers a hospital nurse offering her that reassurance after she noticed the normally active baby in her belly had stopped moving. As Riley tells it, she was seven months pregnant and had already…

THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE has withdrawn a proposal that would have imposed onerous restrictions on protests on the Mall and other federal land in Washington. This represents a full retreat by the Trump administration and, more important, a…

On his first day of homelessness, Reggie Cox attended a goodbye party for his sister, and said nothing about his circumstances.

The District could soon be one of the most expensive cities in the country to get a soda.

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says she is committed to eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2024, the District’s goal under the Vision Zero initiative it adopted in 2015. Yet for more than three years her administration has…

THE CLOSELY watched National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows declines and stagnation in student learning in most of the country. But the District is a happy exception, posting gains in both reading and math and continuing a…

My friends advocated for go-go before the Council, I saw Wale perform a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR, and then the Nationals won the World Series.

For most young people, Halloween is all about the sweet loot. It’s about bite-sized Snickers tossed into bags with miniature packets of Twizzlers and Skittles and that candy with the grandest of names and the most meh of tastes, Milky Way.…

The one downside of the fact that the Nationals (hurrah for our brave boys!) are in the World Series is that now the New York Times is trying to inform its readers about this curious hamlet with few restaurants and less culture in which…

Ward 2 D.C. Councilmember Jack Evans this year was forced to resign from the Metro Board and was fined $20,000 because of ethics violations that included using his government email to seek business for his consulting firm.

New legislation would cement the sound’s rightful place at the center of this gentrifying city’s culture.

Sorry, Nats.

It seems like the entire region is celebrating after the Nationals’ historic playoff run. But for many, that good feeling evaporated when we saw the ticket prices: $1,100 for standing room only. Even worse, many season-ticket holders did…

The gentrification of District neighborhoods — forcing existing residents, mostly people of color, out and creating new, amenity-rich areas for generally white and wealthy newcomers — is not a force of its own. It is not the natural order…

October’s changing leaf colors, along with intrusive leaf-blower noise, are signals every year that fall is definitely upon us and winter will be arriving in a few weeks. But these sights and sounds also remind us how wonderfully verdant…

The Washington Nationals will host the Houston Astros Friday night in the first World Series game in the District since 1933. It almost didn’t happen.

Washington has spent years fighting a reputation of being a high-tax, heavily regulated, business-unfriendly place. Recent developments suggest that the city’s commitment to economic and personal freedom may be waning. The Healthy Beverage…

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