Opinion
Is It Legal? Deferring to Power and Authority Leads Inevitably to Autocracy
The disparity between the letter and practice of the law has been a defining feature of white conservatism.
William Horne
February 13, 2025
William Horne
News
Dan Berger’s ‘Stayed on Freedom’ Shows Why It’s Important to Fight Racism and Voter Suppression
Berger’s telling of this history offers both a window into and a bridge towards a better world, one that is ours—all of ours—for the taking.
William Horne
October 6, 2024
News
Heather Cox Richardson’s ‘Democracy Awakening’ Shows the Importance of Holding Right-Wing Criminals and Frauds Accountable
Richardson’s work is as much about the contradictions of our shared past as it is an urgent call to action around the current authoritarian crisis threatening American democracy.
William Horne
March 7, 2024
Opinion
Antisemitism Is a Threat to Us All — And to Democracy
The danger in antisemitic conspiracy theories lies not only in the direct threat they pose to Jewish communities, but also in the way fascists and authoritarians have used them as tools to undermine democracy.
William Horne
November 28, 2023
News
When America Refused To Hold White Supremacist Terrorists Accountable, It Made Itself Into A Klan Country
In her analysis of Reconstruction, Kidada Williams reminds us that a better world has always been possible.
William Horne
October 5, 2023
Opinion
Racist Mass Violence Isn’t Incidental To White Conservatism—It Is Its Defining Feature
From the White League Coup of 1874 to the January 6 Insurrection, white conservatives have used direct violence in attempts to seize power.
William Horne
January 5, 2023
Top 5
The Republican Party Is Unpopular and It Knows It. That’s Dangerous
Growing opposition to Republican policies disincentivizes the GOP’s already waning commitment to democracy and increases the risk of racist mass violence.
William Horne
November 22, 2022
Opinion
Why I Use The F Word (And You Should Too)
We have a fascism problem. Solving it requires that we correctly identify this problem and the dangers it creates.
William Horne
July 20, 2022
Pennsylvania Homeless Advocates Condemn Trump’s Plans to Punish the Unhoused, Involuntarily Commit Them
August 7, 2025
“Homelessness is caused by poverty,” said Estelle Richman, HUD Chief Operating Officer during the Obama administration. “These are poor people … Many of them are working. They just don’t have enough money to pay the rent.”
80 Years After the US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Nuclear Threat Remains Grave
August 5, 2025
Nuclear war is a real and present danger that we must acknowledge and confront, writes Ira Helfand.
Rivot Magazine Provides Bucks County a Much-needed Print Music and News Publication With a Punk Rock Ethos
August 4, 2025
Founder James Lamb said print media was a void that needed to be filled. “I just really like a physical, handheld thing that can be saved, that can migrate when I drop one at the bus stop.”
DOJ’s Demand for State Voter Lists Are a Major Battleground in Fights Over Access to the Polls
August 4, 2025
The Trump administration wants to scoop up voter registration lists and other election data from all 50 states.
New Pennsylvania Project Opens Office in Bensalem, Its First in Bucks County
August 2, 2025
The nonpartisan voting rights organization wants everyone in the county to be registered, educated, engaged and active voters.
