News & Politics

It\’s been more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began, yet the evolving nature of the global crisis remains a challenge to public health officials and citizens to this day. At this point, science suggests that the most common measures initiated in response to the pandemic virus—social distancing, hand washing, and widespread mask use—are

Statehood can’t wait any longer. As Mayor Bowser states, “Washingtonians have waited over 200 years for the representation we deserve as American citizens.” As long as D.C. residents go without full access to democracy, Bowser said, “our entire nation is denied those voices and votes.” Eleanor Holmes Norton explains that when D.C. becomes the the 51st state, residents will have voting representation

Something good is happening in 2021, although the impetus for it — glaring evidence of racial inequality and discrimination — is painful. Finally, reparations are being imagined at various levels of government and in multiple U.S. cities. D.C. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie has proposed a law creating a task force to plan for reparations. McDuffie, quoted