Opinion

It is the plainest of wooden tables, the kind you probably wouldn’t examine closely unless you spilled something on it.

IMAGINE STRUGGLING to find a viable surface to change your baby’s diaper because the men’s restrooms around you lack this accommodation, then placing your changing pad on your very last resort: the restroom floor. This is the difficulty…

If you have ever felt overwhelmed by overcrowding on the otherwise beautiful High Line, you might agree with Stephen A. Hansen’s June 30 Local Opinions essay, “Don’t ‘High Line’ Georgetown’s C&O Canal.” Unfortunately, the call to…

A recent Gallup poll showed that most respondents thought the District should not attain statehood. D.C. statehood is an unformed issue in the minds of most Americans. It’s not a kitchen-table issue. Qualitative research is needed, not a…

We had just come back from a trip; jet-lagged, I had turned off the light to go to sleep when I heard a series of sharp pops. My husband, who was downstairs, immediately called out, “Stay away from the windows!”

Thanks to my loving 40-year friendship with Joan Baez and her innate generosity, she has given concert tickets to my college and high school students and me well more than two dozen times in Washington sites ranging from Wolf Trap to the…

Sterling Tucker, who died Sunday at the age of 95, was small in stature but loomed as a giant over generations of D.C. leaders. Unlike the current crop of D.C. elected officials, Tucker entered public office with a well-earned reputation…

I’ve heard all the clichés in the course of my 20-year career. In the last eight weeks, I’ve lived them.

So, with so much development already happening, does the District need to change single-family zoning? Yes, if the city wants to become more affordable and inclusive. Data show us that income distribution in the city and racial composition…

Supporting statehood for the District is a no-brainer for Democrats, including those running for president. Indeed, all of them support it, and those now serving in Congress have all co-sponsored bills to make the District a state.

“PEOPLE JUST don’t see the reason why D.C. should be a state. They’re comfortable with the status quo.” That was the assessment of a senior editor of Gallup about results of its first-ever poll showing a very substantial majority of…

I wish I could say I was shocked by the sex trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein. But as someone who supports survivors of sexual exploitation and trafficking, the disturbing allegations that he and a handful of powerful men…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Monday that the city will be offering free measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations at clinics and doctors’ offices in all eight of the city’s wards.

Haven’t visited D.C.? No worries, we get it. There are so many other places in this great, sprawling country of ours to visit.

Neighborhood lemonade stands are the ultimate symbol of American entrepreneurship and have become a pipeline for young entrepreneurs. Early age entrepreneurship helps our youth learn business skills, responsibility, financial literacy,…

Days before Laura Nuss left her position as the longest-serving director of the D.C. Department on Disability Services, a judge led a courtroom in a standing ovation for her.

DURING HIS years in private business, Donald Trump was frequently accused of not paying and underpaying people who performed services for his real estate holdings. Everyone from carpenters to waiters to drapery makers complained that they…

Families in crime-plagued Northeast and Southeast D.C. neighborhoods must have looked with envy at the police presence during last Saturday’s Demand Free Speech rally around Washington’s Freedom Plaza. It was, in a word, massive.

Last month, the Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art, launched one of the most extensive, ambitious and timely exhibitions in its nearly 100-year history, “The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement.”

While parks bring a number of positive benefits to a community, one’s ability to access them is often shaped by income, race, and education. Despite the fact that parks can improve public health, serve as anchors for economic development,…