Opinion

THE REPUTATION of former Metro chairman Jack Evans wasn’t the only thing that was tarnished amid the swirl of allegations that he used his public office to advance his private interests. Public trust in the Metro board was also badly…

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s signature $60.8 million economic development project, “Reunion Square,” in the city’s impoverished Ward 8 east of the Anacostia River is in limbo. But it’s not because of rinky-dink political machinations that…

Last week, Washington D.C.’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission 4B voted unanimously to pass a resolution in favor of the city’s proposed second-look bill, which would let incarcerated people who committed crimes when they were young…

When it comes to D.C. sports, fans such as myself are going to get shamed for not showing up to a sporting event. We’re going to get shamed for not cheering loudly enough (despite oftentimes having nothing to cheer loudly about). We’re…

When it comes to transportation, few metropolitan areas have demonstrated their ability to innovate more than Washington. That may be hard to swallow for some given our notorious traffic congestion, chronic maintenance backlog and safety…

For those of us who have witnessed or experienced gun violence firsthand, the trauma is compounded when we witness it again and again in our communities.

Since the mid-2000s, the District of Columbia has experienced a population boom accompanied by rising housing values—and, in recent years, more students in public schools. In most cities with similar population growth, housing prices rise…

Marcus Bullock was 15, in a maximum-security prison with men who had already spent decades behind bars, and he was thinking about his Christmas presents.

D.C.’s unique political commentator Mark Plotkin dies

The announcement that the Environmental Protection Agency was scrapping Obama-era rules designed to protect small streams and wetlands made me recall a misty morning this spring on the Potomac River above Georgetown. I brought a striped…

The GOP's anti-urban agenda takes many forms, but it always tracks back to wealthy whites' fear of losing power.

The 11th Street Bridge Park in Washington, D.C.—a planned repurposing of the retired 11th Street Bridge across the Anacostia River between the East of the River neighborhoods and Capitol Hill into a vibrant city park—will connect…

Amen, protesters. Washington was in complete gridlock Monday thanks to marchers, shouters, interlopers and even a sailboat plopped in the middle of an intersection for the morning commute.

We’ll never see the likes of Mark Plotkin again.

It’s no surprise that the the District’s assisted suicide program isn’t popular. When it was legalized two years ago, health officials estimated as many as 10 people annually would elect to die this way. The reality? Two of four…

REPUBLICAN DISREGARD for the civil rights of D.C. residents has long been established. So it was no surprise that at last week’s House hearing on D.C. statehood, GOP lawmakers ticked off their usual reasons that they don’t think the…

The D.C. Council is considering a bill to fully legalize marijuana and regulate the retail marijuana market. The council decriminalized minor marijuana possession in 2014 ; later that year, voters approved an initiative that removed…

Two years ago, I wrote a book detailing how African American leaders in the District and elsewhere helped, sometimes unwittingly, to usher in the mass-incarceration era. Many black judges, mayors and legislators who served during the…

The D.C. Council’s myopic handling of embattled member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) could be dismissed as an exercise in klutziness were the situation not so serious. Lawmakers seem too shortsighted to see the urgent need to resolve the problem…

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) spared no effort this week in using the D.C. statehood hearing as a way to put herself in the spotlight as a champion of the cause.