Opinion

Advisory neighborhood commissioner Denise Krepp’s Aug. 18 Local Opinions essay, “A miscarriage of justice for sex-crime victims,” seemed to want to represent all sexual assault survivors. As a black woman and mother who has survived sexual…

When people get shot and killed in D.C., the stories we hear about them often start with how their lives ended.

The new addition to D.C.’s performing-arts behemoth strives to create a sense of lightness, movement, and intimacy—qualities that the original building lacks.

Political eyes are focused on the 2020 elections, when voters get to decide whether to elect a new president and vice president or keep the ones they have. The presidential race, however, is not the only game in town. In 2020, the District…

In April, I pulled into the parking lot of the Jelleff Recreation Center, home to one of the few regulation-size playing fields in Northwest Washington. I found the impeccably uniformed Maret School lacrosse team playing St. John Paul the…

Schools are opening their doors to a new group of students, ready to take lessons designed to shape their lives and worldviews in lasting, meaningful ways. But what lessons will they draw from restrictive school dress codes? Nothing good.…

When attorney Laura Peña visited her client’s 7-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter at a shelter for unaccompanied migrant children, the desperation Peña encountered was so overwhelming that she could barely keep herself from crying. Her…

SIX MONTHS after her husband was killed in an unprovoked shooting — allegedly by a man who had killed before — Nafisa Hoodbhoy is not waiting for anyone to deliver justice. “There is no such thing as justice,” she told us. “He will never…

With more anti-LGBTQ attacks investigated here in D.C. in 2018 than in much larger cities like New York and San Francisco, addressing this high level of hate violence requires that we explore all possible solutions. Considering the complex…

At DC Scholars Stanton Elementary School, Assistant Principal Shaunte Daniel gave each student a hug as they entered the building on Tuesday morning. They smiled, some blushed, and hugged her back.

From a distance, the pavilions of the new Kennedy Center expansion look a bit like thick shavings taken from the bulk of the arts center’s old building. They are covered in gleaming white concrete, which reminds one of the Carrara marble…

DECRIMINALING PROSTITUTION has become a priority for the progressive movement, and the movement is slowly picking up steam across the country. That it seems to have found a receptive audience with the D.C. Council is not a big surprise,…

When Randolph Nelson is having breakfast — Fruity Pebbles in a recycled takeout container — outside his front door, he greets the commuters walking past.

Walk into the F Street headquarters of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and you will see a white lion stretched out in the lobby.

If D.C. government agencies had done what they were supposed to do — i.e., their jobs — it is more than likely that two people who were killed in a rowhouse fire, including a 9-year-old boy, would still be alive.

Two weeks ago, DC Public Schools and the D.C. Public Charter School Board released student test results for the past school year. There was a tremendous amount to celebrate in the release. Across the board, student achievement is up.…

Is it acceptable to residents of the District that their government might decriminalize the sale of the bodies of women and men, many of them transgender, to satisfy male desires?

Said Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) in a statement following news about the deadly fire that ravaged an illegally rented rowhouse in Northwest D.C., “The District will not tolerate landlords who prey on vulnerable populations, operating…

THE NUMBERS are alarming enough. The District last year had an all-time high of 204 hate crimes, accounting for the highest per capita hate-crime rate of any major city in the country. Peel back the numbers, and the details are equally…

MONDAY MARKS the start of a new academic year for the District’s public schools. Sadly, one school that won’t be opening its doors to students is the AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter. Thanks largely to the indifference of D.C.…