Opinion
Poem: Donald Trump, America’s Hypnotist
Bucks County poet Steve Nolan wrote this prose reaction to last week’s election.
Steve Nolan
November 13, 2024
Steve Nolan
Opinion
Here’s What Project 2025 Has Planned for the Military
Imagine a military sworn to defend Trump and the MAGA movement instead of the United States Constitution.
Steve Nolan
October 20, 2024
Opinion
Trump’s Use of Arlington National Cemetery as a Campaign Prop Just Another Insult to the Nation’s Military Veterans
I hope that one day soon my nation will regain its footing enough to prevent traitors, looking for self-serving photo ops, from desecrating this hallowed ground, writes military veteran Steve Nolan.
Steve Nolan
September 4, 2024
Opinion
Engineering Trumpland: The Elon Musk Interview
The only good thing about a malignant narcissist is that they frequently telegraph what they are going to do—even brag about it.
Steve Nolan
August 16, 2024
Opinion
Me the People: Trump’s 2024 Republican National Convention Speech
His garish display of self-worship took many forms, from giant portraits with blood on his face and fist raised in defiance, to his clarion call to “fight, fight, fight,” writes military veteran Steve Nolan.
Steve Nolan
July 19, 2024
Opinion
The Biden-Trump Debate: A Question of Patriotism
Steve Nolan, a 30-year military veteran and author of “American Carnage: An Officer’s Duty to Warn,” explains why so many journalists’ and pundits’ takes on last week’s debate miss the mark.
Steve Nolan
July 1, 2024
News
Ukrainian Poet Uses Her Craft as Wartime Witnessing
Halyna Kruk’s “A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails” documents the carnage of war, but does not exclude the things that refuse to be extinguished by suffering.
Steve Nolan
June 3, 2024
Opinion
OPINION: The MAGA Movement Betrays the United States Military
Steve Nolan, a 30-year military veteran and author of “American Carnage: An Officer’s Duty to Warn,” explains why Trump is unfit to hold even the lowest rank within the military, let alone lead our country as Commander in Chief.
Steve Nolan
May 18, 2024
Opinion
OPINION: Rolling Stone Goes Cherry-Picking with Critique of Pentagon Report
Bucks County Veteran Steve Nolan believes the DOD was right to examine extremism within the military’s ranks, but that the media outlet’s coverage of it was misleading.
Steve Nolan
February 2, 2024
Why There’s a ‘Great Resignation’ of Black Public School Teachers in Philadelphia
December 17, 2024
It started well before the pandemic and continues today. A key reason is experiences of racism within the larger school district that affect Black teachers across the system, but manifest differently depending on their schools’ locations.
It’s Do or Die Time for Philly Hydrogen Hub, and Some Green Groups Are Rooting for Death
December 16, 2024
The U.S. Department of Energy is dangling $750 million for the buildout of a hydrogen hub around Philadelphia. But the looming Trump presidency and strong economic headwinds endanger its prospects.
Bucks County’s 2024 Poet Laureate Uses Poetry and Dance to Destigmatize People with Schizophrenia
December 13, 2024
Lake Angela was moved by her own experiences with schizophrenia and the stories of the treatment patients in her dance therapy groups faced at the psychiatric institution.
White Fragility Leads Pennsylvania to Backtrack on Mandating Culturally Relevant Teacher Guidelines
December 11, 2024
The move to erase attention to anti-bias and culture in schools is grounded in denial that concerns about systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc., are real.
The Central Bucks Code Blue Shelter Operates for Little More Than One Median Household Income in Bucks County
December 10, 2024
The Coalition to Shelter & Support the Homeless provides the county’s unhoused individuals with more than 1,000 bed nights each year.