Virginia pioneered in vitro fertilization 40 years ago. It’s overdue for insurance to cover it.

Mandating coverage offer more families the hope that mine had.
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Maryland can improve its cash assistance for low-income families

Getting parents into meaningful work, not just any work, and improving educational opportunities would have a lasting impact on families.
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Rural Virginians will lose political clout in redistricting

The numbers make clear that he suburbs will gain seats, and the countryside will lose them.

Virginia can do better than keeping innocent people in prison

It is infuriating that our criminal justice system is so broken that bogus convictions happen at all.
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D.C.'s landlords are powerless to address the Wild West atmosphere in their properties

A public safety exemption is too narrow to help property owners get rid of tenants who cause dangerous conditions.
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Virginia’s voters demanded change with Amendment 1

Residents want fairly drawn districts, not protections for politicians.
  • 4 days ago

Montgomery County needs a ‘space race’ for the arts

A program to match artists with performance space would yield benefits for the whole community.
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Slavery was part and parcel of the wealth of early Georgetown

My research also showed that colonial merchants traded in human commodities.
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For Glenn Youngkin and Terry McAuliffe, there’s much work and little time

Both candidates are playing to their bases. The question is which option appeals to that big batch of undecided voters.

For Virginia, the only way to the end of the pandemic is through vaccines

That's why I'm requiring my staff to be fully vaccinated. Health-care institutions and schools should follow suit.
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Two Virginia legislators irresponsibly undercut a measure on masking that they helped pass

There’s a cost to ignoring public health advice in a pandemic.

The D.C. police shooting of Antwan Gilmore raises troubling questions

The incident contrasts sharply with the handling of this month's terrorism threat.

The retirement of UMBC’s transformational and charismatic leader will leave a void

The 30-year tenure of Freeman A. Hrabowski III made him one of the country’s most influential voices in higher education.

It is time to deal with the nation’s vexing increase in homicides

There is no single panacea for the spike in violence. What is clear is that the situation is urgent.

D.C.’s Metro must up its game. The region’s prosperity depends on it.

D.C.'s transit agency must up its game. The region’s own prosperity depends on it.
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Hypocrisy on victims of unjustified police shootings

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A life sentence with Robert Kennedy’s death

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The fight to stop legal abortion

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