Opinion
Enough is Way Past Enough with School Shootings in Our Country
It is time for mass rallies that won’t quit, writes Bucks County mom Emily French.
Emily French
March 30, 2023
Emily French
Culture
“Walls Turned Sideways Are Bridges”: A Review of ‘An Autobiography’ by Angela Davis
Angela Davis embodies this Black History Month’s theme of Black Resistance.
Emily French
February 10, 2023
Culture
Time to Press the Reset on SCOTUS
A review of Thom Hartmann’s book “The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America.”
Emily French
December 2, 2022
Culture
Progressive Organizing Is What Wins Elections and Makes Democracy Work
A review of “Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections.”
Emily French
October 17, 2022
Culture
Work as the Way out of Poverty: A Myth
Twenty-one years after its publication, we as a society still haven’t learned the lessons from Barbara Ehrenreich’s book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.
Emily French
September 29, 2022
Culture
Give Love to Students: Keep ‘The Hate U Give’ in School Libraries
According to the American Library Association, Angie Thomas’s book was the fifth most challenged in 2021. It should be read by students (and their parents), not banned from schools.
Emily French
September 18, 2022
Culture
Loving Mother Earth and Receiving Her Love Back
Robin Wall Kimmerer in her book “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants” discusses through Indigenous storytelling and plant science solutions for fixing the planet.
Emily French
August 19, 2022
Culture
Are You Ready to Be a Jane?
Judith Arcana’s “Hello. This is Jane” tells the story of an underground abortion network pre-Roe v. Wade. This book should be read as a how-to manual now that women find themselves in the same oppressive and dangerous reality prior to 1973.
Emily French
July 22, 2022
Culture
Thinking Respectfully, Thinking Restoratively
A Review of “The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives.”
Emily French
July 7, 2022
Trump’s Executive Orders Seek to Erase Scientific Truth
February 20, 2025
By denying the realities of sex, gender, and race, the White House’s statements worsen inequity and cause harm.
Deporting Millions of Immigrants Would Shock the US Economy, Increasing Housing, Food and Other Prices
February 19, 2025
Why isn’t the corporate media reporting about this more, or in many cases at all?
Upcoming Public Forum in Doylestown to Focus on Understanding Immigrants’ Experiences Locally
February 19, 2025
“The hope is to foster a better understanding of who our local immigrant community is, what challenges they face and how we can be more welcoming and understanding as a community,” said Doylestown Borough Manager John Davis.
Photo Essay: Hundreds of Protesters Rally Against Donald Trump and Elon Musk in Doylestown on President’s Day
February 18, 2025
This was part of a nationwide response in locales across the country to oppose Trump’s actions since taking office, which legal scholars say are putting the country in a “constitutional crisis.”
Pennsylvania Isn’t Quite the Abortion Sanctuary State That Reproductive Rights Advocates Want it to Be
February 16, 2025
Recent data shows patients leaving the state to obtain abortion care actually outnumber those coming in.
