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
Interview: Director Christian Swegal on His Debut Film on Far-right Extremism ‘Sovereign’
July 18, 2025
Swegal hopes his movie will be a conversation starter that challenges viewers to feel empathy.
Scant Details Available After ICE Arrest in Plumstead Township Park
July 17, 2025
It’s unclear if Bucks County Sheriff’s deputies were involved.
Urban League Declares a ‘State of Emergency’ for Civil Rights in the US Under the Trump Presidency
July 17, 2025
“For a long time, people saw white supremacist politics and white nationalism as on the fringe of American politics. It has now become the mainstream of the American right, whose central foundation is within the Republican Party,” said Marc Morial, president of the Urban League.
Trump’s DOJ Wants Voter Lists and Other Election Information from Pennsylvania, Other States
July 17, 2025
“The DOJ seems dead set on acquiring personal information on voters, including driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers and dates of birth — records that are highly protected under federal law and under state law and which state election officials are sworn to protect,” said David Becker, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research.
Democratic State Senators Propose Bill To Strengthen Reproductive Freedom in Pennsylvania
July 16, 2025
“In Pennsylvania, our current law puts regulations around abortion care in the criminal code, and that is absolutely unacceptable. Health care is not a crime,” said State Senator Amanda Cappelletti.
