By: Miriam Edelman As of April 18, 2025,   D.C.  has its first specific law against female genital mutilation (FGM). On April 13, 2023,...

By: Miriam Edelman Warning: This piece includes graphic details. It can be difficult to explain female genital mutilation (FGM) and...

By: Miriam Edelman Emancipation Day  (April 16th), a D.C. holiday,  commemorates the District of Columbia   Compensated Emancipation...

By: Miriam Edelman Fresh in the new 119th Congress, BOWSER Act bills,  which are named  after D.C. Mayor’s Muriel Bowser and which would...

By: Miriam Edelman Initiative 83, which would bring semi-open primaries and ranked-choice voting to the nation’s capital, is now law....

By: Miriam Edelman During this year’s Women’s History Month,  child marriage in D.C. became history. This piece follows up on DCNOW’s...

By: Miriam Edelman DCNOW continues to be active regarding D.C. autonomy and D.C. statehood. DCNOW’s Miriam Edelman has written and...

By: Miriam Edelman Happy National Music  In Our Schools Month! It is fitting to honor this month, which has been around for decades, by...

By: Miriam Edelman Imagine being a U.S. citizen of voting age and being told to contact your Members of Congress about a certain policy...

By: Miriam Edelman "D.C.” in Washington, D.C., has much more meaning than other postal state abbreviations. Many people from states may...

By: Miriam Edelman D.C. was originally created from parts of Virginia and Maryland. Virginia took back its land from D.C. in the...

By: Miriam Edelman Over the past few weeks, the Senate confirmed many of President Donald Trump’s nominations for major offices,...

By: Miriam Edelman Presidents’ Day,  which was named Washington’s Birthday to honor the nation’s first President George Washington, was...

By: Miriam Edelman Unsurprisingly, in this new Congress, a new Congress continues its efforts to overturn non-citizen voting in...

By: Miriam Edelman Again, Representative Andrew Clyde (R-GA) wants to undermine D.C. autonomy. This time, he would like to eliminate...

By: Miriam Edelman   D .C. residents have limited self-governance called home rule for just over 50 years, although the District of...

By: Miriam Edelman Senator Chris   Van Hollen  (D-MD) just replaced the recently retired Senator Tom Carper as the lead Senate sponsor of...

By: Miriam Edelman During this new Congress, the two main full Congressional committees that have jurisdiction over Washington, D.C., are...

By: Miriam Edelman U.S. Senator Mike Lee and Representative Nancy Mace continued focusing on D.C.’s childcare employees. As DCNOW’s blog...

By: Miriam Edelman The 118th Congress (2023-2025) continued its focus on abortions in Washington, D.C. Congress’ D.C. appropriations bills...