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Students’ relationship with the District includes a responsibility to safeguard its right to representation.

Postulating a Chinese debt-trap scenario for Greenland runs counter to existing evidence, including Greenland’s trade interests, Denmark’s ongoing policies, and the growing role of the US.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today she has reintroduced her District of Columbia Courts Home Rule Act, which would give the Council of the District of Columbia authority over the jurisdiction and organization of the local D.C. courts. The D.C. Home Rule Act expressly prohibits D.C. from enacting any law with respect to any provision

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she will introduce a bill this week to repeal the authority of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) over the District of Columbia. GAO, a federal agency that conducts investigations and audits for Congress, has the same authority over D.C. that is has over federal agencies. GAO’s

On August 23, 2021, the District of Columbia (“D.C.”) Council enacted the Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2021 (D.C. Act 24-159), an omnibus bill that, at Title IV,...

Fifty-eight years after the first March on Washington, demonstrators are gathering to demand the protection of voting rights across the country.

At 78, Howard Croft was part of a generation of heroes who risked their lives to challenge segregation. The Black civil rights activist’s death from covid-19 has left his family and D.C. community reeling.

100 years on, politicians still haven’t learnt from Ireland’s partition We are still living with the wounds of the Irish Civil War. Charles Townshends new book The Partition tells a story that is not over yet 25 April 2021 • 5:00am January 1921: Sir Hamar Greenwood of the Royal Irish Constabulary inspects a group of Black and Tans Credit: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images One of the abiding problems with Anglo-Irish history is the tendency for authors to take sides. Normally the Irish wri...

Why the District of Columbia Should Not Be a State Commentary In June 1783, the Confederation Congress was meeting in what is now Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Continental soldiers surrounded the building demanding back pay. They were peaceful, but the intimidation was plain. Congress asked Pennsylvania authorities to clear away the demonstrators. Pennsylvania authorities refused to do so. Congress accordingly left Philadelphia for Princeton, New Jersey, thereby making that town the nation...

Photograph from the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Update: The original version of this story listed the Senate bill as having 42 co-sponsors. At the time of publication, this number was actually 44. Passing along strict party lines, legislation to admit D.C. as the nation’s 51st state was approved by the House of Representatives on April 22. It marks the second consecutive year that the chamber passed such a bill, a signal that the stat...