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
Despite Trump’s Federal Funding Cuts to NPR and PBS, WHYY Is on Solid Financial Footing – for Now
May 9, 2025
“But without federal funding, the road ahead becomes more challenging — not just in sustaining what we do now, but in continuing to grow and innovate,” said Bill Marrazzo, President & CEO for WHYY.
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.
