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The silver pick-up truck with a passenger-side rust spot passed the railroad tracks, then slowed down as it rolled past the crowd of demonstrators in this tiny downtown. “Black lives matter!” yelled a white woman in comfort capri pants — then she and...

For teens whose home lives are already tough, this shutdown can be devastating. The hottest job in the next year? Youth mental health therapist. It has to be. Because it’s the teens — the “quaranteens” — who may be hit the hardest by this pandemic. “...

It has been just a month since America went into pandemic lockdown and exposed our inequities so starkly. In a single day of reporting, I talked to an executive dad who has been loving telecommuting and that he has had dinner with his family every ni...

“They’re just getting so blunt,” Ruby Corado said. “It’s just out there. It used to be more isolated.” Corado could be talking about support for the LGBT community. The Pride parades across the Washington region this month drew huge crowds. And they ...

As we have learnt in Charlottesville, Pittsburgh and Orlando, hate is not about geography. The Clark brothers grew up in a dynamic and diverse neighbourhood in the nation’s capital, on a street with American flags and rainbow pride flags, pick-up tru...

Even before he arrives in Northern Virginia, the new fire chief for one of the country’s wealthiest suburbs heard the reason some people do not want him there: his skin colour. The hoods and robes of today’s bigots are anonymity and wi-fi. And in Fai...

About 123 people die of it every day, but we still don’t want to talk about it. Those left behind often don’t receive casseroles or cards, flowers or fundraisers, hugs or visits. The obituaries, too, are evasive, resorting to euphemisms such as “died...

Maybe this time will be different. Maybe the sheer number of people killed and injured at a country music festival in Las Vegas — at least 59 dead and more than 500 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history — will finally lead...

This has happened before. A monument erected in a prominent place was removed in the darkness of night. The Ku Klux Klan was invoked. But this memorial, installed more than 30 years ago in the most touristed part of Annapolis, Maryland, was dedicated...

When they came through the arrivals gate at John F. Kennedy Internationl Airport in 1968, my parents could have been seen as a threat. It was the middle of the Cold War, and my parents — my mom was 21 and my dad was 23 — had spent their entire lives ...