Opinion
Tariffs Can Be Useful — But Not How Trump Is Using Them
When done right, protectionism can benefit workers and the environment. That’s not what’s happening here.
Sonali Kolhatkar
April 2, 2025
Sonali Kolhatkar
Opinion
What Is Our Collective Solution to Health Care Injustice?
The fight over health care in the U.S. is about competing narratives: profit-making versus collective well-being. We need to articulate a publicly funded solution now—before corporate spin silences us.
Sonali Kolhatkar
December 17, 2024
Opinion
Scapegoating Immigrants Hurts All of Us — Except Elites
Hedge fund managers, not immigrants, are outbidding Americans for housing. Corporate employers keep wages low and privatization has ruined healthcare, not immigrants.
Sonali Kolhatkar
October 16, 2024
Opinion
Hold GOP Officials Accountable for Illegal Voter Intimidation
Republican officials continue to falsely accuse, harass, intimidate, and even prosecute voters of color. This is quintessential voter intimidation.
Sonali Kolhatkar
September 19, 2024
Opinion
Project 2025’s Plan to Gut Medicare and Medicaid
Conservatives are planning to slash the health care plans that millions of low-income and senior Americans rely on.
Sonali Kolhatkar
July 17, 2024
Opinion
‘Tough-on-Crime’ Doesn’t Apply to People Like Donald Trump
Trump’s conviction is not proof that the criminal justice system works. The joy and disbelief we may be feeling is because it was never intended to ensnare people like him.
Sonali Kolhatkar
May 31, 2024
Opinion
Corporate Profiteering Destroyed the Baltimore Bridge
The price of corporate compromising on safety is usually paid with taxpayer dollars and immigrant worker lives.
Sonali Kolhatkar
March 29, 2024
Opinion
Cash Bail Is Unfair and Violates Due Process
Reversing progress on bail reform is a new flashpoint in the GOP’s culture wars.
Sonali Kolhatkar
March 18, 2024
Opinion
The Real Reason Your Grocery Bill Is Still So High
It’s not inflation, it’s actually corporate greed keeping food prices high. It’s now time to turn the tables on our food system by centering justice over profits.
Sonali Kolhatkar
February 4, 2024
Pennsylvania Homeless Advocates Condemn Trump’s Plans to Punish the Unhoused, Involuntarily Commit Them
August 7, 2025
“Homelessness is caused by poverty,” said Estelle Richman, HUD Chief Operating Officer during the Obama administration. “These are poor people … Many of them are working. They just don’t have enough money to pay the rent.”
80 Years After the US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Nuclear Threat Remains Grave
August 5, 2025
Nuclear war is a real and present danger that we must acknowledge and confront, writes Ira Helfand.
Rivot Magazine Provides Bucks County a Much-needed Print Music and News Publication With a Punk Rock Ethos
August 4, 2025
Founder James Lamb said print media was a void that needed to be filled. “I just really like a physical, handheld thing that can be saved, that can migrate when I drop one at the bus stop.”
DOJ’s Demand for State Voter Lists Are a Major Battleground in Fights Over Access to the Polls
August 4, 2025
The Trump administration wants to scoop up voter registration lists and other election data from all 50 states.
New Pennsylvania Project Opens Office in Bensalem, Its First in Bucks County
August 2, 2025
The nonpartisan voting rights organization wants everyone in the county to be registered, educated, engaged and active voters.
