Opinion

Exactly 0.6 miles. That’s the distance between where a gunman killed a 15-year-old honor roll student in May and where a crowd gathered on Friday to watch the District unveil several new initiatives aimed at keeping children safe.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) drew applause at a news conference this week when, in announcing her regulations to stop a planned federal shelter for unaccompanied migrant children in the city, she said: “We know when facilities are too big to…

When the FBI came knocking on DC Councilmember Jack Evans’ door in June, it set off an earthquake in local politics and business.

MANY AMERICANS are rightly outraged by the Trump administration’s treatment of migrant children, who have been separated from parents and ill-treated by authorities. Democrats have been understandably eager to distance themselves from such…

On July 8, the District experienced torrential rains and flash flooding that in a matter of minutes overflowed storm sewers, trapped people in cars and created havoc throughout the region. News photos flashed around the country, showing…

Want to talk about gun violence? Look no further than our nation’s capital. With the exception of 2012, when the city recorded 88 homicides, there have been at least 100 homicides here every year since 1999, guns being the chief weapon of…

You’ve seen those yard signs — “Hate has no home here” — all over liberal D.C., right?

Following the approval of Ballot Initiative 71 legalizing adult-use recreational cannabis in the District of Columbia, Congress prohibited its full implementation. Consequently, cannabis is legal to grow, possess and gift, but cannot be…

THE D.C. school system’s central office has seen a fair amount of turmoil in recent years, with controversies and changes in school leadership. So there was some understandable worry that the troubles might be felt in the classroom and…

We rely too much on incarceration. The pillars of the system should be healing, restoration and renewal.

Before a month’s worth of rain fell onto the nation’s capital in a single hour, flooding her apartment and destroying most of her family’s belongings, Christina Gaddis had a home that offered a washer and dryer and one other important…

Ronald C. Clark, co-founder of RAP Inc. drug treatment center in the District, was remembered at a memorial service last week as a visionary, a pioneer and a hero to many who were able to break the bonds of addiction because of his work.

RESIDENTS OF the District of Columbia deserve protection from the most violent criminals and to be confident those offenders receive prison sentences commensurate with the gravity of their crimes. A bill pending in the D.C. Council would…

How did we end up here? I have a theory.

D.C. has begun doling out huge bundles of cash to local political candidates who engage in a new optional campaign public financing scheme. Tallies of tax monies already being distributed to mostly marginal long-shot candidacies are…

ROCK CREEK IS now D.C.’s “dirtiest” waterway and, in a sense, that’s good news. The city’s rivers are getting cleaner, and some areas are often free enough of bacteria for residents to swim in them safely for the first time in many years.…

The District’s incarceration rate is higher than any state in the nation — and any country. In large part, that’s owed to a period of excessive mandatory-minimum-sentencing guidelines, which disproportionately targeted people of color. In…

An effort is underway, led by D.C. Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), to hasten the release of convicted murderers and rapists, including child sex offenders.

In his Aug. 10 op-ed, “Making D.C. a ‘sex tourist destination’?,” Colbert I. King criticized a D.C. Council bill that would decriminalize prostitution in the District.