Opinion

The Trump Administration’s false and damaging narrative on homelessness

The founder and executive director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty says how the Trump administration has only hindered those who are experiencing homelessness.

The evil Triumvirate, Part 2: How does our nation get out of this mess?

When I last wrote I ended on a less than optimistic note. Our democracy is on the verge of going down the crapper thanks to… Read more »

How Republicans and Trump become the home for anti-war Democrats

While the left has always been fragmented and disjointed one thing that united liberals were opposed to war. What drew me to the left was… Read more »

A response to Jeff Taylor: No, conservatives don’t hate democracy

Sometimes I get irritated when liberals try to label you.   I supported Jesse Jackson and voted twice for Barack Obama. The reason I left the… Read more »

Jeffery McNeil is deep in the Trump bubble

This piece is in response to Street Sense Media vendor and opinion writer Jeffery McNeil’s piece in the last issue. In that piece McNeil made… Read more »

Moving Up: What we can learn from the Nationals

Arthur Johnson gives examples of how the city as a whole can learn from the World Series winning Washington Nationals.

We need a halfway house for men in DC

One of our vendors gives us a different voice on why there needs to be a new halfway house in the District.

Say ‘no’ to D.C’s sex work bill

I support the decriminalization of sex work. But I do not support decriminalization for buyers only. And that’s exactly what the Community Safety and Health… Read more »

The coming storm for D.C.’s citizens with disabilities

“One of the most important decisions on the DC Council’s plate this fall is to pass the Direct Support Professional Payment Rate Act of 2019, initiated by Councilmember Brianne Nadeau.”

Street Sense vendors react to downtown bench removal

Multiple Street Sense vendors give their opinions on bench removal in the downtown area.

The more the liberal establishment hates Trump, the more popular he gets

A writer is similar to a doctor. A good doctor gives you an opinion based on the evidence. You may not like the fact that… Read more »

Why does the GOP hate Democracy?

It’s been clear for at least the last decade or so that the GOP views as legitimate only those election outcomes that favor their team…. Read more »

Homeless in the blink of an eye

I have said it a thousand times: It can happen to anyone, anywhere, anytime.  We see it every day: the homeless on the street, the… Read more »

The city I love

I’m a life-long D.C. resident who remembers when we marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to the monument grounds in the freezing rain, saying to the world… Read more »

Can baseball help bring our communities together?

Thompson-Bey discusses the possibility of a World Series victory bringing Washington D.C. together.

Democrats are Donald Trump’s greatest campaign ad

Street Sense vendor Jeffery McNeil describes how the democrats of today will only help Trump’s re-election campaign.

Keep the Circulator bus free!

A Street Sense vendor gives her input on the impact of the Circualtor not being free anymore.

Unlikely allies in the battle against the radical left’s quest to remake America

Street Sense Media vendor and columnist Jeffrey McNeil admits that even though he’s not a fan of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he has found common ground with her.

The evil triumvirate: How we got into this mess and how Republicans are covering for Trump

Street Sense vendor Jeff Taylor discusses “The evil triumvirate: Donald Trump, Moscow Mitch McConnell, and William Barr. How we got into this mess and how Republicans are covering for Trump and their own complicity.”

The circulation of democracy is free bus transit in the nation’s capital

A Street Sense vendor stakes her claim to why the Circulator buses should stay free.