Opinion

Dear Mayor Bowser, While you may be considering hipsters or partiers or fashion divas of the dark to be your new night mayor, that’s all wrong. Because besides Dracula, you know who works hardest after the sun sets? That’s right — moms.

WITH MAYOR Muriel E. Bowser (D), Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D), D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) and D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) — all of whom we have endorsed — facing nominal challenges in their reelection bids,…

On July 12, 2016, the D.C. Council passed the Incarceration to Incorporation Entrepreneurship Program Act to provide business planning and related training, college courses in entrepreneurship, apprenticeship training, leadership and…

It’s no secret: Commuting in the District is a nightmare under the best of conditions. A combination of too many cars and too few public transportation options has left commuters with among the longest average commute times in the nation —…

The first big lie of the Trump administration had to do with crowds and public space. The day after his Jan. 20, 2017 inauguration, Trump’s official spokesman cited incorrect numbers to back up the president’s claim that “like a million,…

Try saying it — the Doritos March on Washington for Freedom. The Red Bull Rally for Refugee Rights! How about the Stayfree Protest for Women? All wrong. But that’s where we’re headed if yet another piece of the American experiment goes to…

Opaline Bar and Brasserie at Washington D.C.’s Sofitel Hotel was too crowded, so I’d gone out to find another breakfast spot. I wasn’t dressed for the autumn morning chill—the temperature must have dropped 30 degrees from the day before,…

The Oct. 12 editorial decrying a rise in homicides in the District, “A rising D.C. death toll,” praised the D.C. police for “dispatching extra officers and doubling down on seizures of illegal guns” in Ward 8. The editorial went on to…

The National Park Service (NPS) is considering changing how it processes applications for marches in Washington. Not marches on Washington, mind you, such as the peaceful 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that included Martin…

D.C., please stop trying to act like the rest of the nation. It’s not flattering. What should have been a straightforward D.C. Council race is now being infused with the same type of bitterness that has taken over national politics. It now…

Rewriting the law to end the independence of the D.C. Office of Open Government this summer, the D.C. Council at least mandated that the new overseers, the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA), include one member equipped…

The biggest racial preferences in this country have nothing to do with college admissions or job offers. They have to do with political power. And they benefit white Americans, at the expense of black, Asian and Hispanic Americans.

Metro is considering raising fares for big events. How many cliches fit? Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. Penny wise, pound foolish. Here today, gone tomorrow. I spent five years working for the American Public Transportation Association,…

When the crackling rail-car loudspeakers come on during rush hour, they might as well say: Get your wallets out, this is a train robbery! Despite consistent declines in Metro ridership, shoddy (and dangerous) service, cost overruns and…

A D.C. TEENAGER who had been shot more than a year earlier died from his injuries on Jan. 5, becoming the city’s first homicide victim of 2018. Five days later, on Jan. 10, another teenager — Paris Brown, 19 — was shot and killed in…

The costs to oversee, operate and maintain Metrorail, Metrobus and paratransit services are ticking upward. Earlier this week, officials gave a wink and a nod to a quasi-independent safety panel — partly because of federal oversight, partly…

The nation’s capital has been breeding progressive voters for so long that when real Republicans turn up on a ballot, social and fiscal conservatives think RINO and Democrats look for candidates who are designated by a “D” or “independent.”

Antoine Pinkney hoped but didn’t know if his family’s application for an apartment would be approved when he stood near his 13-year-old granddaughter in the community playroom of the building where they hoped to move. In the room was a new…

D.C. OFFICIALS have made fighting residency fraud in the city’s public schools a priority. That’s understandable. Nonresidents shouldn’t be able to game a system paid for by D.C. taxpayers. But is the city’s zeal to show it is cracking down…

Maryland and D.C. residents soon will be encouraged to do something they shouldn’t: vote early in this year’s general election. Virginians will not be urged to do so because Virginia, wisely, does not allow early voting. Neither does…