Opinion

President Trump’s fate as a booze, beer and wine entrepreneur — resulting from his ownership of the Trump International Hotel in the District — rests in the hands of seven D.C. citizens, all of whom have been appointed by Mayor Muriel E.…

HOUSE REPUBLICANS have hit a new low in their disregard for the District and the right of its residents to govern themselves. Even as they proclaim themselves champions of limited government and personal freedom, they passed a spending plan…

There’s no sugarcoating what is taking place on Capitol Hill. By embedding anti-home-rule riders in the fiscal 2019 D.C. appropriations bill, House and Senate Republicans are thumbing their noses at citizens of the District and their…

In conversations across the District, and particularly in the neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River where I work, there is a very real and heartfelt anxiety that gentrification and the displacement that accompanies it are sweeping…

Hardly a week goes by that you don’t read or hear about affordable housing challenges afflicting American cities in general and the District in particular. What are the causes of this persistent, seemingly intractable problem? Three…

In the fall of 1998, I walked through the doors of Walker-Jones Education Campus in Shaw as a new teacher and recent Howard University graduate. The challenges were daunting for D.C. Public Schools — and for me. Schools were in such…

Mayoral control should not mean unchecked control over data and information.

The District is a city that tries to do everything — all at once. Graded on effort alone, D.C. would get an A. Look no further than the $14.5 billion budget approved by the D.C. Council this week. The government is setting out to do it all:…

The developer’s banner stretching across construction fencing promises beautiful apartments, with floor-to-ceiling windows, trees and flower beds, a little pool of blue water. “Is that a little pool for us?” a 9-year-old boy who passes the…

Less than a year ago, Anthony Anderson told me he’d been fired from his job as a burrito maker at Chipotle. “They said I was too slow,” he told me, embarrassed, not meeting my eyes. No biggie. Turns out he got another gig. This weekend, the…