Opinion
The Real Threat to Food Security
Our lawmakers need to take farmland access seriously. The next farm bill should work more for the health of our farm system, and less for Wall Street.
Anthony Pahnke
December 8, 2024
Opinion
Opinion
Let’s Make This a Season of Giving, Not Hoarding
Billionaires and Wall Street exploit our charitable giving laws to dodge taxes and collect fees, hurting real charities in the process.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
December 4, 2024
Opinion
Only Continued Climate Organizing and Direct Action Can Save Us and the Planet
Corporate campaigning has a vital role to play in what our social movements will be up to in the coming years, writes Earth Quaker Action Team Media & Research Coordinator Eve Gutman.
Eve Gutman
December 3, 2024
Opinion
We’re Taking on America’s Most Anti-Union Company and We’re Going to Win
Pennsylvania has one of the largest numbers of Amazon warehouses in the country.
Dori Goldberg
December 2, 2024
Opinion
Public Servants: Don’t Stand Aside, Stand Together
For many federal employees, particularly those at agencies like the DOJ, IRS, and Treasury, the temptation to leave ahead of the Trump-Musk-Ramaswamy assault on their careers is very real.
Colin Coyle
November 27, 2024
Opinion
Hunger and Homeless Awareness Month Isn’t Working
It’s not because physically providing adequate housing is all that tough, but because dedicating the resources necessary to care for our neighbors has proven damned near impossible, writes Pat LaMarche.
Pat LaMarche
November 27, 2024
Opinion
Environmental Victories in Harrisburg Give Hope During Upcoming Trump Era
Governor Shapiro and our state legislature can – and must – act as a bulwark against any Trump-era rollbacks by strengthening enforcement of our existing environmental laws even as they work to enact new policies that make our state a leader in environmental protection.
Molly Parzen
November 26, 2024
Opinion
Where Do Progressives Go From Here?
Doing the same old, same old with the same tired people is a recipe for continued failure, writes Bucks County’s Steve Cickay.
Steve Cickay
November 25, 2024
Opinion
US House Passes Dangerous Bill That Could Punish Nonprofits Treasury Department Decides Are ‘Terrorist’
“I believe that this is part of a strategy to preempt opposition to Republican policies and encourage self-censorship,” said Indiana University Professor Beth Gazley.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
November 24, 2024
Conservatives File Lawsuit to Rollback LGBTQ+ Protections in Pennsylvania
March 14, 2025
The right-wing law firm Thomas More Society, along with their plaintiffs which include South Side Area School District and Knoch School District, and Republican State Representatives Barbara Gleim and Aaron Bernstine, want to make discrimination OK again in the commonwealth.
How Will Federal Funding Uncertainty Tied to Trump’s Anti-DEI Crusade Impact Higher Education in Bucks County?
March 12, 2025
“When we roll back DEI efforts, we risk weakening the very foundation of progress, creativity and excellence that our communities and institutions thrive on,” said Bucks County NAACP President Adrienne King.
OPINION: Pennsylvania Democrats Don’t Need National Direction. Look Local.
March 11, 2025
Stop looking to the Potomac and Senator Schumer and look, instead, to the Susquehanna and Governor Shapiro, or the Delaware River and Bucks County Democrats.
5 Reasons Veterans Are Especially Hard-hit by Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Federal Cuts
March 10, 2025
The Trump administration has abandoned the U.S. government’s long-standing commitment to protect and serve its veterans — a promise that dates back to the country’s founding.
GOP Lawmakers Push to Charge Women with Homicide for Seeking Abortions
March 9, 2025
‘Fetal personhood’ bills would grant fetuses, embryos the same rights as newborns.
