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
PSEA Urges Lawmakers to Pass a Budget to Fund Pennsylvania’s Public Schools, Not Use Students as ‘Bargaining Chips’ to Divert Money to Cyber and Religious Schools
August 27, 2025
“Our kids are not bargaining chips,” PSEA President Aaron Chapin said. “Our kids are not pawns in some grand strategy to enact a tuition voucher scheme that will shift taxpayer dollars away from our public schools and send them to private and religious schools.”
OPINION: Trump’s Troop Deployments in Cities Across the US Are Dress Rehearsals for Nullifying Your Vote
August 27, 2025
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
‘Victory for Pennsylvania Voters and Our Democracy’: Court Rules State Must Stop Throwing out Mail Ballots Over Date Errors
August 26, 2025
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
5 Takeaways From DC’s Organized Resistance to Trump’s Military Occupation
August 26, 2025
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
Pennsylvania Needs an Independent Redistricting Commission to Ensure Fair Representation
August 25, 2025
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
