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It’s arrogant to think that the District somehow can avoid the public health disaster that is playing out in many states that have already reopened.

They know the only way they can sustain power is to give up on democracy.

D.C. officials on Wednesday will fence off Franklin Square to begin a year-long renovation of the park to make it “more user-friendly.” But the closure will also mean the displacement of the homeless men and women who sleep there.

Here I was thinking that all the rationales for voter suppression and denying representation (Is voting by mail good or to be forbidden at all costs? Is two senators for 700,000 people perfectly just or a terrible slight not to be borne?)…

The capital city is beginning to reopen as the House returns to session, despite delays in hiring and training city workers to track coronavirus cases.

Fierce arguments broke out by a statue of Abraham Lincoln in the nation’s capital on Friday night as dozens of protesters hoping to remove it confronted a handful of people eager to defend the monument.

Protesters continued to gather Friday around D.C. a month after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.

After more than 100 D.C. firefighters survived COVID-19, many are now donating their plasma to help patients struggling to fight the virus in the hospital.

Fresh off passing emergency legislation that “radically” rethinks how D.C. conducts public safety, Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen increased the pressure on D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham on Thursday by requiring a “mandatory review”…

Before Friday, the last time Congress considered the question of the District of Columbia becoming a state was 27 years ago. The measure failed in 1993 by nearly a 2-to-1 margin, with all but one House Republican and 40 percent of the…

THE HOUSE of Representatives voted Friday to make the District of Columbia the nation’s 51st state. It was a signature moment, the first time in history that a chamber of Congress has formally approved statehood for the District. Credit to…

Or, why it took New Mexico 62 years to become state.

D.C. lawmakers this week took their first step toward reducing the role of police in the city’s public schools, amid pressure from protesters here and around the country to remove law enforcement from campuses.

The House on Friday passed a bill giving the District of Columbia statehood, the first time either chamber of Congress has passed any bill that would make the nation’s capital a state.

Mary McLeod Bethune, a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Black Cabinet,” stands on a memorial with two children alongside her in Lincoln Park. An educator who founded the National Council of Negro Women, Bethune was the first…

On Friday afternoon, the House of Representatives took a first, if symbolic, step toward granting statehood to the District of Columbia, passing HR 51 on a largely partisan vote of 232-180.

It comes from a guy liberals think of as one of Congress' biggest buffoons.

In a city clamoring for both more public outdoor space and better representation in public institutions, the opening of Alethia Tanner Park couldn’t come at a more opportune moment.

Founder Mary Blackford is a finalist for a $100,000 grant for her upcoming venture in Benning Market.

During an appearance on the Kojo Nnamdi Show on Friday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser touched on one of the hot-button issues that initially ignited her now-infamous frays with President Donald Trump, saying that if asked, she would not comply…