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
Opinion
Opinion
Why Federal Courts Are Unlikely to Save Democracy from Trump’s and Musk’s Attacks
With a Supreme Court that has moved sharply to the right, coupled with the Trump Administration’s breakneck pace of actions and its recent statements challenging judicial authority, a robust political strategy is needed.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
February 13, 2025
Opinion
Black History Is Every Day, With or Without the White House
From local school boards to Washington, the right is doubling down on its efforts to erase Black history. They’ll fail.
Tracey L Rogers
February 11, 2025
Opinion
The Fight to Save the ‘Dinosaur’ of the Delaware River
Having survived for over 100 million years, Atlantic Sturgeon are known for their resilience. But due to human-driven environmental threats they are now on the verge of extinction.
Maya K. van Rossum
February 10, 2025
Opinion
OPINION: Elon Musk’s Smash-and-Grab Coup
As Musk attempts to take apart the Federal government piece by piece, we’re all about to get educated about what the Federal government does and how it impacts everything from healthcare to public education.
Melissa Ryan
February 9, 2025
Opinion
OPINION: In Order to Save Social Security We Need to Fight for It
We must also reject any calls to privatize Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, writes Bucks County’s Steve Cickay.
Steve Cickay
February 9, 2025
Opinion
Letters: Is This What You Voted For?, Scared Senate Republicans, USAID Saved Lives, and the Decline of American Influence Around the Globe
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
February 8, 2025
Opinion
OPINION: Gearing Up in Bucks County to Fight for Racial and Social Justice During Trump’s Second Term
Dozens gathered in a solidarity rally in Levittown to mark the beginning of local resistance efforts to the Trump Administration’s reactionary and authoritarian agenda.
Kevin Subers
February 6, 2025
Opinion
8 Ways States Can Fight Inequality and Build Worker Power
As a war on immigrants and the working class rages in Washington, state governments should use every tool at their disposal to advance a more equitable economy.
Sarah Anderson, Inequality.org
February 4, 2025
As Pennsylvania Inches Toward Legalizing Recreational Cannabis, Lawmakers Propose Selling It in State-owned Dispensaries Similar to State Liquor Stores
February 25, 2025
“Pennsylvanians who want to buy cannabis are just driving across the border to one of our neighbors,” says Governor Josh Shapiro.
Election Officials Blast Trump’s ‘Retreat’ from Protecting Voting Against Foreign Threats
February 24, 2025
Pennsylvania’s Republican Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said states need federal help to safeguard elections from foreign and domestic bad actors.
The Seven Mountains Mandate Is the Biggest Political Story the Mainstream Media Is Missing
February 23, 2025
A coalition of spiritual advisors with nearly unimpeded access to the president aim to erase the separation of church and state, establish a specific brand of Christian dominion over every part of society, and fundamentally reconstruct life in the United States as we know it.
Interview: Author Elaine Weiss on the Four Little-Known Activists Who Were the ‘Beating Heart’ of the Civil Rights Movement
February 22, 2025
Weiss speaks about her new book “Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement,” which comes out March 4.
Bucks County Labor Leaders Praise Renewed AFL-CIO and SEIU Alliance as Essential
February 21, 2025
The solution to Trump and Musk’s trickle down chaos is organizing and solidarity.
