Opinion
OPINION: How Vladimir Putin Defeats the United States
There is much work to do if we intend to keep this republic, writes Bucks County military veteran Steve Nolan.
Steve Nolan
February 18, 2025
Steve Nolan
Opinion
Does Brian Fitzpatrick Support Trump’s Pardons and Clemencies of Jan. 6th Insurrectionists? He Won’t Say
The Republican Congressman owes his constituents an explanation about where he stands on this divisive issue. And why aren’t local newspapers chasing this story?
Steve Nolan
January 24, 2025
Opinion
On January 6th We Mark the Day the United States Became a Lie
Bucks County military veteran Steve Nolan explains why he believes this day is one of the darkest days in U.S. history.
Steve Nolan
January 6, 2025
Opinion
Poem: Donald Trump, America’s Hypnotist
Bucks County poet Steve Nolan wrote this prose reaction to last week’s election.
Steve Nolan
November 13, 2024
Opinion
Here’s What Project 2025 Has Planned for the Military
Imagine a military sworn to defend Trump and the MAGA movement instead of the United States Constitution.
Steve Nolan
October 20, 2024
Opinion
Trump’s Use of Arlington National Cemetery as a Campaign Prop Just Another Insult to the Nation’s Military Veterans
I hope that one day soon my nation will regain its footing enough to prevent traitors, looking for self-serving photo ops, from desecrating this hallowed ground, writes military veteran Steve Nolan.
Steve Nolan
September 4, 2024
Opinion
Engineering Trumpland: The Elon Musk Interview
The only good thing about a malignant narcissist is that they frequently telegraph what they are going to do—even brag about it.
Steve Nolan
August 16, 2024
Opinion
Me the People: Trump’s 2024 Republican National Convention Speech
His garish display of self-worship took many forms, from giant portraits with blood on his face and fist raised in defiance, to his clarion call to “fight, fight, fight,” writes military veteran Steve Nolan.
Steve Nolan
July 19, 2024
Opinion
The Biden-Trump Debate: A Question of Patriotism
Steve Nolan, a 30-year military veteran and author of “American Carnage: An Officer’s Duty to Warn,” explains why so many journalists’ and pundits’ takes on last week’s debate miss the mark.
Steve Nolan
July 1, 2024
Active Clubs Are White Supremacy’s New, Dangerous Frontier
August 29, 2025
These groups are a new and harder-to-detect form of white supremacist organizing that merges extremist ideology with fitness and combat sports culture.
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.
