News
What Can Unions Do Now to Defend Abortion Rights?
There are specific interventions the labor movement can make, beyond turning out voters and joining rallies.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
August 3, 2022
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
Opinion
What the US can learn from apartheid-era book bans in South Africa
Despite the decades and distance, the rise in attempts to ban and censor books in America in 2022 looks an awful lot like what South African censors did during apartheid.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
August 2, 2022
Elections
Democrats: Mastriano’s pursuit of extremist voters makes him unfit to serve as governor
“You cannot do business with these people and claim to represent all Pennsylvanians. If you embrace antisemites and racists and homophobes and xenophobes, then you are one of them,” said state Rep. Dan Frankel, D-Allegheny.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
August 1, 2022
Education
In Court, A Clash Of Views On What Education System PA’s Constitution Requires
Pennsylvania has a system that is “inadequate, it’s inequitable, it’s illogical.”
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
July 29, 2022
News
Days before his gay son’s wedding, a Pa. Republican cast a vote against same-sex marriage
‘We love it when they find their one true love,’ U.S. Rep. Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson said in a reception speech.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
July 28, 2022
Opinion
More young voters could come out to vote in November, sparked by abortion and other hot political issues
Now that states are deciding on their own abortion laws, young voters’ ballots in gubernatorial and other state and local races may be especially critical in such places as Pennsylvania and Georgia, where new abortion restrictions are a possibility depending on election results.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
July 18, 2022
Opinion
Former Oath Keeper reveals racist, antisemitic beliefs of white nationalist group – and their plans to start a civil war
Though GOP leaders deny claims of white supremacy and extremism within their party, their actions tell another story.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
July 14, 2022
Opinion
Images of Gun Violence Could Prod the Public
Perhaps we need to witness the dead once again.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
July 7, 2022
Elections
Fetterman Calls for Assault Weapons Ban After July 4th Parade Massacre
The Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat also demanded the prosecution of “gun dealers whose weapons routinely wind up at crime scenes.”
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
July 5, 2022
Feds Accuse Trenton Police of Pattern of Unconstitutional Brutality and Stops
November 23, 2024
A report by federal prosecutors offered example after example of brutality and constitutional violations, many of which disproportionately impacted Black people and Latinos in this city of almost 90,000 residents.
Media Analysis: NPR’s ‘Balance’ Serves to Normalize Trump’s Highly Abnormal Cabinet Picks
November 22, 2024
The incredibly lopsided “balance,” lack of actually diverse viewpoints, and dubious fairness and accuracy displayed in the network’s nomination coverage reveals what the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is really going for with the new oversight it installed, writes FAIR’s Julie Hollar.
Interview: The Democratic Party Needs a Generational Change in Leadership, with Daily Beast Columnist Rotimi Adeoye
November 22, 2024
“The American people have said that the Democratic Party of right now is not what they want,” the Bucks County native told Editor Cyril Mychalejko.
ACLU and Ramsingh Legal Ask Federal Court to Order Souderton Area School District to Stop Targeting Critics and Stifling Free Speech
November 21, 2024
The district “has engaged in a pattern of conduct designed to silence its critics,” said ACLU of Pennsylvania Deputy Legal Director Sara Rose.
Riled Up MAGA Faithful From Across Pennsylvania Crash Bucks County Commissioners Meeting
November 20, 2024
Sean Moon, leader of the “antigovernment Christian gun cult” Rod of Iron Ministries, even made an appearance.