Opinion

Three minutes. That’s how long Lekelefac Fonge was supposed to be gone.

Events DC’s announcement that it will raze RFK Stadium by 2021 presents it, with the National Park Service’s cooperation, the opportunity to remove the memorial to late Washington football team owner George Preston Marshall (1896-1969)…

Why do we have to spend our day proving to some rando we’ve never heard of that the District is actually home to 702,000 people, not all of whom wear pleated khakis and house massive amounts of steak for lunch?

For the first time in more than two decades, the House Oversight and Reform Committee held a hearing last month to examine the potential admission of Washington, D.C., as our 51st state. But at its core, I believe that hearing examined…

You have to hand it to the D.C. bicycle lobby.

Having apparently solved all the urgent problems besetting D.C. – crime, poverty, traffic, homelessness, public schools that don’t educate, etc. – the D.C. Council - whose city is actually named for Columbus! got down to the important…

WHISTLEBLOWERS, AS the country has become all too keenly aware, help serve the public interest when they stick their necks out to report wrongdoing in government. That, though, assumes that their complaints are actually investigated and…

Almost exactly six hours after I first sent out the social media query, the Twitterati sleuths provided an answer: My mystery woman had a name (Vasilisa Smith) and yes, the missing white AirPod belonged to her.

On a bright and sunny afternoon, the Friday before Labor Day weekend, a group of people was crowded in the shade against the storefronts of Red Bear Brewing Co. and La Colombe, D.C. watering holes that offer craft beer and mocha lattes,…

Imagine a world where our nation’s capital has become a hub of sex tourism. Picture it: A place where pimps can sell people freely, brothels proliferate and men can purchase the bodies of women and girls for sexual use any place, any time,…

MASS TRANSIT ridership in many major U.S. cities remains flat or in decline, but a few places are starting to buck that years-long negative trend — chief among them the Washington area’s Metrorail system. Could it be that Metro, butt of…

Mayor Muriel Bowser kicked off her second term as Washington, D.C.’s mayor last January by setting an ambitious goal for the District: building 36,000 new homes by 2025. To reduce the likelihood that new construction will displace…

So far this bloody year, about 450 people have been hit by gunfire in the nation’s capital.

This is a case of negligence to the point of cruelty: The District’s only public psychiatric hospital, St. Elizabeths, has been operating without running water since last week.

Results from the annual Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers don’t tell us whether or where education is improving. They should.

Millions of documents that tell more than 200 years of D.C.’s history fester in a converted stable without appropriate climate control or space for researchers. Even as Maryland has carefully catalogued the heritage records stored in its…

DC’s Comprehensive Plan sets the course for how the District will grow in the next decade, and the Framework at the beginning sets the tone for the rest of the plan. Right now the District is updating this plan, beginning with the…

Like gay marriage and marijuana regulations before it, across the country, Americans are waking up to our harmful laws against sex work. As they are now, sex work criminalization laws create barriers to access to health services for sex…

They’ve been stranded in India for seven weeks now.

Voting is the most fundamental right of our democracy. Yet more than 5 million American citizens are not allowed to vote in our elections because they have felony convictions. Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia carved these…