Opinion
Reflecting on Social Justice Day in Times of Social Turmoil
Bucks County military veteran Steve Nolan explains what social justice means to him.
Steve Nolan
February 20, 2023
Steve Nolan
Opinion
Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied: Two Years after the Insurrection
Hopefully, Merritt Garland will follow through on his promise that no one is above the law and that indictments and convictions will follow for the 45th President of the United States.
Steve Nolan
January 6, 2023
Opinion
Donald Trump and the Resurrection of Fascism
Just last week Trump entertained white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes for dinner.
Steve Nolan
November 28, 2022
Opinion
How Many Traitors Does it Take to Destroy a Democracy?
Lessons from the January 6th hearings in the run-up to next week’s election.
Steve Nolan
November 1, 2022
Opinion
How GOP Leadership Is Hurting the American Military
Our current GOP leadership is complicit in an attempt to destroy our current military institution by division from within.
Steve Nolan
September 30, 2022
Culture
Stained Glass
On the anniversary of the only atomic weapons ever used, this poem comes from thoughts about the horrors of war and the collateral damage that always results, whether WWII, Vietnam, or what I witnessed in Afghanistan. It’s true that you can’t meditate Hitler out of Poland or Putin out of Ukraine, but the cost of war takes it’s toll on the most innocent and stretches the credulity of our deepest religious convictions.
Steve Nolan
August 5, 2022
Opinion
This Fourth of July: A Question of Patriotism and the Survival of Our Democracy
Bucks County military veteran Steve Nolan writes that for the first time in his life, he is approaching the Fourth of July with uncertainty about our freedoms and the existence of our Republic.
Steve Nolan
July 1, 2022
Opinion
Radicalized: The Grooming of Doug Mastriano
The Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor is unfit for office, writes Bucks County military veteran Steve Nolan.
Steve Nolan
June 15, 2022
Opinion
Will Republicans Have To Be Discharged From Military Service?
Bucks County military veteran Steve Nolan worries about the dangerous effects Trump and Trumpism has had on soldiers, sailors, airmen/airwomen, and marines.
Steve Nolan
May 27, 2022
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.
