The Barras Report Blog

By Ben Jealous LIKE so many of us right now, I’ve got Georgia on my mind. As I write this, I’ve just gotten back from meeting with Black...

DC voters began receiving their ballots for the November general election this week. The contests for mayor, DC Council chair and council...

DON’T expect me to mince words here. The DC government and, thus, the entire city, particularly low-income residents, have been drowning...

IF YOU DON’T WIN A DC CONTRACT, START A CITIZEN PROTEST THAT surely must be the thinking of leaders at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield...

“[T]HE highway was lined with yellow wildflowers that danced from their roots every time a car drove by. Smoke seeped up into the sky...

FISCAL Year 2023 for the District of Columbia started today, October l, 2022. The D.C. Council just passed a $20 billion budget in...

THERE is always a new low for Trump Republicans. And that is pretty frightening. Take the latest exercise in lawlessness, dishonesty, and...

“It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends,” Joan Didion wrote in her 1967 essay, “Goodbye to All That.”...

DID you ever wonder whether elections really matter? Well, the Trump Supreme Court majority has answered that question for good. Or, more...

ANY District of Columbia resident or leader who cares about the city’s political independence and the ability of its legislature to...

IT'S difficult to imagine any mayor’s second term like the one with which Muriel Bowser has grappled. It began in 2019, filled with...

THINGS are about to get worse for millions of vulnerable people in our country. It looks like the far right-wing majority on the U.S....

ANTI-DEMOCRATIC authoritarianism is on the rise–both around the world and here at home. Sometimes it is easier to recognize overseas....

DC Attorney General Karl Racine may have crossed an ethical line when he endorsed Brian Schwalb as his successor. One of four candidates...

HISTORY was made in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965. Alabama state troopers viciously attacked peaceful voting rights marchers at the...

PRESIDENT Joe Biden is about to name the first Black woman ever nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court—in fact, he may have already done so...

AN African-American male, born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, I am the ninth generation of African descendants in America. Five...

THE Republican National Committee (RNC) is officially letting Americans know that it is more committed to former President Donald Trump...

PRESIDENT Joe Biden’s first year in office has brought both triumphs and disappointments. There’s no question that the administration has...

The final installment of an investigative series by The DC Line supported by SpotlightDC: Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism...