Opinion
The Only Winners in This Trade War Will Be Trump and His Fellow Billionaires
Trump’s erratic tariffs aren’t a recipe for an industrial comeback. They’re a recipe for corruption.
Peter Certo
May 2, 2025
Peter Certo
Opinion
Why the Far Right Lies About Immigrants
Many of the lies about increased crime, violence, and pet eating by Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio that Trump and Vance have repeated appear to have originated with a local neo-Nazi group called “Blood Pride.”
Peter Certo
September 11, 2024
Opinion
There’s No Debate Over Debt — Only About Priorities
If the GOP cared about debt, they’d stop cutting rich people’s taxes and give the Pentagon a haircut. So what’s this really about?
Peter Certo
May 25, 2023
Opinion
20 Years On, What Did the Iraq War Truly Cost Us?
The war claimed more than lives and treasure — it claimed a future’s worth of lost opportunities. Now, younger generations are demanding them back.
Peter Certo
March 19, 2023
Top 5
Republican ‘Solutions’ Will Make Inflation Worse
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, like all of his Republican colleagues, voted against the Child Tax Credit, the Inflation Reduction Act, and other social programs that help families cope with rising prices.
Peter Certo
October 20, 2022
Opinion
An Ugly New Era of ‘States’ Rights’
Giving extreme new powers to autocratic, gerrymandered, and unaccountable state governments is not democracy.
Peter Certo
June 29, 2022
Exclusive: Agency Responsible for Report on Student Abuse Allegations at Jamison Elementary School at Risk from Trump Administration’s Proposed Federal Funding Cuts
May 8, 2025
Proposed funding cuts in the draft budget “would impact our ability to do similar investigations and ensure student safety in the future,” said Jennifer Garman, CEO of Philadelphia-based Disability Rights Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senator John Fetterman Raises Alarms with Outburst at Meeting with Union Officials
May 7, 2025
Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk, according to one person who was briefed on what occurred.
Bucks County Commissioners Meeting Packed with Residents Fired Up Over Sheriff’s ICE Agreement
May 7, 2025
Critics of the potential local 287(g) partnership raised concerns over racial profiling, wrongful arrests, lack of due process, and community safety. However, supporters also turned out raising the issues of human trafficking, crime, and alleged treason.
Hearings in Harrisburg Show Pennsylvania Lawmakers Are Unable to Find Consensus Around Much-needed Cyber Charter School Reform
May 7, 2025
At the first two hearings, some folks brought receipts, and some brought excuses, while the cyber charters themselves declined to appear at all.
Senator Ruben Gallego to Host Town Hall in Bucks County as Part of DNC’s ‘Fight to Save Medicaid’ Month of Action
May 5, 2025
Gallego travels to Pennsylvania’s First Congressional District and will be joined by Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, who is running against Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, “to engage the constituents Fitzpatrick is ignoring as he backs his party’s reckless budget resolution.”
