Opinion
Tariffs Can Be Useful — But Not How Trump Is Using Them
When done right, protectionism can benefit workers and the environment. That’s not what’s happening here.
Sonali Kolhatkar
April 2, 2025
Opinion
Opinion
Homelessness Is Not Fun and Games, Though Nintendo Thinks It Is
Kids’ games like “Street Survival Homeless Simulator” available on Nintendo Switch illustrate just how broken our society has become as we commodify everything – even people’s suffering.
Pat LaMarche
April 2, 2025
Opinion
Governor Shapiro Fights to Lower Energy Costs for Pennsylvania’s Working Families
As energy demands increase in the commonwealth, the governor has called on PJM to clear a huge backlog of clean energy projects.
Molly Parzen
March 31, 2025
Opinion
Why You Need to Go to Philadelphia on April 5th for the ‘HANDS OFF’ Protest
Over 100 national organizations are joining together to plan a mass mobilization of peaceful protestors in big cities around the country.
Kierstyn Zolfo
March 31, 2025
Opinion
Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick’s Phony Telephone Town Halls Are Like Crank Calls to Democracy
We need a representative in Congress who engages not in sophistry, but in truth-telling, and one who has the courage to have in-person town halls open to all their constituents, writes Newtown’s Steve Cickay.
Steve Cickay
March 30, 2025
Opinion
Trump’s Firings of Military Leaders Pose a Crucial Question to Service Members of All Ranks
Military personnel at all levels are now facing the question of whether they will stand up for the military’s independent role in maintaining the integrity and stability of American democracy.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
March 29, 2025
Opinion
OPINION: Trump’s ‘Molestation of America’
Bucks County military veteran Steve Nolan, author of “American Carnage, An Officer’s Duty to Warn,” writes about the dangers our predator in chief poses to American democracy.
Steve Nolan
March 28, 2025
Opinion
Elon Musk Could Destroy Social Security as We Know It
“The combination of fewer workers, fewer offices, and a massive increase in the demand for in-person services could sabotage the Social Security system,” says Max Richtman, the president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.
Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org
March 25, 2025
Opinion
I Won’t Resign My Federal Job — And No One Else Should Either
Our work provides essential services for all Americans without concern for profit. Without our work, Americans would live at the mercy of robber barons.
Paul Osadebe
March 24, 2025
Bucks County Sheriff Fred Harran’s Lawyer Calls ACLU and Fellow Plaintiffs in ICE Lawsuit Part of ‘Violent and Radical Left’
October 11, 2025
What’s next? Labelling them Antifa. Local voters must deport this MAGA sheriff from his office on Nov. 4 to end his ICE 287(g) agreement once and for all, writes Editor Cyril Mychalejko.
‘Ban This! How One School Fought Two Book Bans and Won’ Authors Set to Speak in Newtown and Doylestown
October 11, 2025
“We are all looking for some kind of hope; for someone who has been successful in taking on the far right,” said Barbara Simmons, executive director of The Peace Center in Langhorne.
Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition Launches Solidarity Fund for Immigrant Communities Across Pennsylvania
October 9, 2025
PA FIRE’s goal is to create “a groundbreaking, statewide initiative to protect immigrant rights, expand vital services and drive long-term systems change across the commonwealth.”
With SNAP Cuts, Rising Hunger and Funding Reductions, Bucks County Food Banks Feeling Squeezed
October 9, 2025
“Families are feeling the pressure, and so are the systems meant to support them,” said Elizabeth Zbinden, Food Program Manager with Bucks County Opportunity Council.
Moms for Liberty CEO and Co-Founder Tina Descovich Verbally Attacks the Bucks County Beacon at Harrisburg-Area Event
October 8, 2025
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