Opinion
Sweeps Don’t Solve Homelessness
Instead, governments should prioritize safe, affordable, dignified, and permanent housing for all.
Farrah Hassen
December 19, 2024
Opinion
Opinion
What Is Our Collective Solution to Health Care Injustice?
The fight over health care in the U.S. is about competing narratives: profit-making versus collective well-being. We need to articulate a publicly funded solution now—before corporate spin silences us.
Sonali Kolhatkar
December 17, 2024
Opinion
OPINION: President Biden Should Certify the Equal Rights Amendment Before He Leaves Office
The ERA will help restore abortion access, protect women from violence, and help build a gender-equitable future.
Kate Kelly
December 14, 2024
Opinion
Why Pete Hegseth’s Religious Beliefs and Ties to Christian Reconstructionism Matter
Christian Reconstructionists believe that Old Testament biblical law applies to today’s society and to everyone, whether or not they are Christian.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
December 13, 2024
Opinion
The COP 29 Climate Agreement: How Fossil Fuel and Plastic Industries Skirt Responsibility for Putting the Planet and People in Peril
The fossil fuel and plastic industries have long wielded enormous political influence, funding lobbyists and leveraging campaign donations to protect their bottom line.
Alisa Shargorodsky
December 12, 2024
Opinion
The Public Anger at America’s Corporate Health Care System Has Never Been Higher
We need to help channel this anger about health care that so many Americans feel today toward ending the system that has so failed America’s health.
Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org
December 12, 2024
Education
White Fragility Leads Pennsylvania to Backtrack on Mandating Culturally Relevant Teacher Guidelines
The move to erase attention to anti-bias and culture in schools is grounded in denial that concerns about systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc., are real.
Tabitha Dell'Angelo
December 11, 2024
Opinion
Every Community Must Embrace Human Rights Day Every Day
Human rights are a pathway to building a better world – and it starts locally.
Barbara Simmons
December 10, 2024
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
Pennsylvania House Democrats Want to Prohibit Cooperation with Out-of-state Criminal Abortion Investigations
April 18, 2025
The goal of the proposed legislation is to protect women who receive abortions and the doctors and nurses who provide this reproductive health care.
Core Democratic Groups Like ActBlue and Indivisible Are Preparing to Be Targeted by the Trump Administration
April 16, 2025
Elon Musk has called on the FBI to investigate ActBlue and recently called Indivisible criminals.
Proposed SEPTA Cuts Are Devastating for Bucks County Workers and College Students
April 16, 2025
“That’s my only means to commute,” said Antonio Deleon, a 38-year-old disabled Levittown resident who lives on a fixed income. He uses it to get to class and for volunteer work in Philadelphia.
Trump Administration’s Proposed Federal Funding Cuts Will Eliminate Free School Lunches for Hungry Students in Pennsylvania
April 16, 2025
About $1.6 billion in federal funding is at risk for Pennsylvania, with SNAP and Title I school free lunches among the hardest hit programs.
The Trump Administration’s Shuttering of the Institute of Museum and Library Services Leaves Pennsylvania Libraries in Limbo
April 14, 2025
“For all intents and purposes, the funding for the rest of this fiscal year is unavailable,” said Maryam Phillips, executive director of Hosting Solutions and Library Consulting (HSLC).
