D.C. will use its own money to pay for SNAP benefits amid shutdown
The Trump administration has refused to use contingency funding to pay for food assistance.
Opinion
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Opinion: The D.C. Council must act to save health care for immigrants
The city owes its workers better than gutting their health coverage.
Opinion: The D.C. Council must not cut an effective violence interrupter program
Violence interrupters do crucial work in this city. They deserve to be supported.
Opinion: Warehousing kids makes us all less safe
D.C.'s Youth Services Center isn't reducing crime—it's manufacturing it.
Opinion: D.C. must restore local control of parole
We owe it to the incarcerated residents whose chances at release keep being arbitrarily denied.
Opinion: Initiative 82 is not harming the restaurant industry
Data shows that the industry is actually doing well.
Opinion: Prison phone restrictions sever D.C. residents from their loved ones
For incarcerated people, access to communication with the people they love is as necessary as food and water.
Opinion: Fresh out of prison, I am discovering the good, bad and ugly of technology
Robert Barton, a D.C. resident and returning citizen, says his "newness" to the world after 30 years in prison has given him a fresh perspective on the role of technology in society.
Opinion: D.C.'s disorganized reentry services fail returning citizens
D.C. has a well-deserved reputation for providing comprehensive reentry services to returning citizens, but they're still not doing enough.
Opinion: While Mayor Bowser stood with Trump, D.C. residents were left vulnerable
I'm excited the NFL Draft is coming to D.C., but not if it means running cover for hateful rhetoric about immigrants
Opinion: Trump is stoking fears about D.C.'s crime but the city is safer than it's been in decades.
In the past, fears about crime have produced regressive and punitive policies. Now is the time for D.C. to invest in preventative solutions.
Opinion: Service workers face disrespect, harassment, and low pay. D.C.'s restaurant industry needs more unions.
St. Anselm’s newly unionized workers on why they organized.
Opinion: A Capital Pride board member becoming a Trump appointee should ring alarm bells
D.C. has a long history of queer people refusing to assimilate into harmful systems. Vince Micone could have been one of them.
