News Analysis: House Budget Riders Could Impact D.C. Funding, Voting Laws
• July 17, 2023

For months D.C. officials have been roiled by proposals from the U.S. Congress to restrict and tighten up some of the District’s crime arrest and detention policies. President Biden actually […]

Editorial: Reading, ’Riting, ’Rithmetic… and Religion  
• August 17, 2022

The other day I was talking to a neighbor whose daughter, a rising high-school junior, was beginning to plan her college visits. Suddenly, it’s become very complicated, she told me. […]

Re Dobbs vs. Jackson, Beware the Originalists   
• July 13, 2022

With all their emphasis on the importance of the founders’ intentions in creating the U.S. Constitution as the foundation of federal law, the Constitutional “Originalists” and their enthusiastic cheerleaders might […]

Pro-Choice Protesters Stage Sit-In at White House (photos)
• July 10, 2022

Persistent rain did not deter more than a thousand abortion rights activists from marching to the White House on July 9 to stage a mass sit-in. “We call for this […]

Profs & Pints DC: Reproductive Justice after Roe
• May 31, 2022

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Reproductive Justice after Roe,” with Sara Matthiesen, professor of history and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at George Washington University and author of Reproduction Reconceived: […]

Maz & Bricks
• May 17, 2022

Maz and Bricks is a passionate, angry, funny and touching play which tells the story of two young people who meet over the course of a day in Dublin. Maz […]

On the Scene: May 14 Rally for Abortion Rights in D.C. (photos)
• May 15, 2022

Thousands demonstrated around the country in support of abortion rights on Saturday, May 14, following a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion indicating that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark law […]

SCOTUS Springs a Leak 
• May 11, 2022

Leaks are pernicious things. You often don’t know you have one until water starts to drip down your wall or a stain creeps across the ceiling. It’s not a good […]

‘Scary Time to be a Woman’: Demonstrators at Supreme Court (photos)
• May 4, 2022

A large gathering of pro-choice activists descended upon the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., from dawn to dusk on Tuesday, May 3, following a prior day’s leaked memo revealing […]

Washington, D.C.: Memorable Images from 2021 (photos by Jeff Malet)
• December 31, 2021

2021 saw a partial resumption of activities in the District suggesting better times ahead. It was also a year marked by political turmoil. Click on the photo icons below for […]