Opinion
More People Need To Know That Abortion Is Health Care
Abortion access is not just a hot button issue—it is crucial to women’s health.
Anita Raj
August 13, 2024
Opinion
Opinion
Letters: Project 2025 and Climate Change, Comparing Tim Walz and JD Vance, and Trump and the Potential End of Voting
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
August 11, 2024
Opinion
According to the Folks at Project 2025, You Might Be a Pornographer
While Project 2025 doesn’t clearly define what it considers pornography, this ambiguity allows Christian Nationalists to selectively weaponize it against the usual targets, such as sex education in schools, LGBTQ+ themed library books, or even a sex advice column in a magazine.
Laura Rose
August 9, 2024
Opinion
From Michael Brown to Sonya Massey, Police Anti-Black Violence Causes Grief, Worry and Coping for Black Parents
These two instances of police violence highlight the cyclical nature of police violence against Black Americans – and the growing mistrust among Black Americans for local police.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
August 8, 2024
Opinion
Trump and Project 2025 Want Militaristic Mass Deportations. This Would Be a Nightmare for the Entire Country
The popular GOP slogan would tear millions of families apart, including mine. It would also be a moral, logistical, and economic disaster.
Alliyah Lusuegro
August 7, 2024
Opinion
Why It Is Impossible to Love Today’s Republican Party, or Even Just Respect It
Once the MAGA agenda is finally defeated and discarded, then, and only then, can we welcome the GOP back into the normal fold of our democracy.
Steve Cickay
August 6, 2024
Opinion
OPINION: In Souderton Area School District, Elected School Board Members Should Be Role Models
When MAGA Republican school board director William Formica posted on X that Vice President Kamala Harris “blew a lot of dudes,” he proved he is not worthy of this responsibility.
Victor M. Verbeke, Esq
August 4, 2024
Opinion
The Toxic East Palestine Train Derailment Makes the Case for Public Rail Ownership
Class I railroad robber barons are perfectly willing to risk the lives of workers and people living in trackside communities so long as it means more money for them and their shareholders.
Adam Barrington, Inequality.org
August 1, 2024
Opinion
5 Growing Threats to Academic Freedom in the United States
V-Dem Institute, a global research organization that monitors indicators of democracy around the world, determined that academic freedom has “substantially worsened” in the United States in recent years.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
July 29, 2024
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.
Bucks County Republican Jim Greenwood Joins Former Members of Congress Calling on Lawmakers to Rein in Trump and Musk’s Abuse of Power
March 7, 2025
The open letter organized by Issue One warns that “America is suddenly at a perilous crossroad” and urges Congress to start acting like a check and balance to the executive branch as the Constitution mandates.
Nearly 1 in 3 Families with Children in Bucks County Are Struggling Economically, Says New Report
March 7, 2025
This is why State Rep. Jim Prokopiak keeps his focus in Harrisburg squarely on “increased education funding, and [the need to] make sure that we have access to affordable healthcare and good paying jobs.”
Pennsylvania’s Century-old Election Code Needs Fixes, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt Says
March 7, 2025
The state’s top election official calls on the Legislature to update rules, and to give local administrators a voice.
