Opinion
How Philadelphia’s Current Sanitation Strike Differs from Past Labor Disputes in the City
Philly has a long history of sanitation strikes that goes back to March 1937.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
July 8, 2025
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Opinion
Letters: I Love the Idea of America; What Is Civility When Defending Democracy?
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
July 5, 2025
News
What the Supreme Court Ruling Against ‘Universal Injunctions’ Means for Court Challenges to Presidential Actions
The court based its decision on interpreting the Judiciary Act of 1789 – not the Constitution – meaning Congress could restore this judicial power simply by passing new legislation.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
June 29, 2025
News
Bucks County Nonprofits With Unique Missions Brace for Proposed Funding Cuts in Biomedical Research
They warn sweeping spending cuts across multiple federal agencies threaten jobs, research, and advances in public health across the world.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
June 24, 2025
News
What is CREC? The Christian Nationalist Group Has a Vision for America − and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Support
The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches is most easily understood through three main parts: churches, schools and media.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
June 20, 2025
Opinion
OPINION: It Is Time for Pennsylvania to Create a Paid Family Leave Program
HB 200 would provide up to 20 weeks of paid family and medical leave for people who experience serious health conditions or life-changing events, like the birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
June 18, 2025
Opinion
This GOP Budget Bill Gun Law Change Threatens Lives
We need to be strengthening our gun safety laws, not weakening them.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
June 16, 2025
Opinion
OPINION: To Defeat Trump’s Fascism, We Must Confront Militarism
While most Americans instinctively understand the threat U.S. militarism poses to democracy, the times call for more explicit links between militarism and rising fascism and a blueprint for reversing this threat.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
June 12, 2025
Opinion
A Field Guide to ‘Accelerationism’: White Supremacist Groups Using Violence to Spur Race War and Create Social Chaos
Accelerationism is often connected to the white replacement theory, a white nationalist conspiracy theory that falsely asserts that there is a deliberate plot to diminish the influence and power of white people by replacing them with nonwhite populations.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
June 11, 2025
Could Pennsylvania’s Budget Impasse End Up in Court?
August 28, 2025
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
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.
