We need to fight for environmental justice until all marginalized communities have access to clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment. It’s a matter of life or death.
If the Supreme Court continues to overturn legal precedents on women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, and other issues, old state laws that haven’t been enforced, possibly for centuries, can suddenly spring back to life.
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
Too many communities are responding to rising homelessness by criminalizing the unhoused. It’s more humane and effective to house people.
Students want to learn and express themselves about what’s happening in the Middle East. We need to embrace that, not run away from it.
Extreme wealth inequality leads to extreme political inequality. Progressive taxation would be better for our economy and democracy alike.
Book reviews of “Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism” and “Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts: How To Save Democracy By Beating Republicans At Their Own Game.”
Rural white people, as a group, now pose four interconnected threats to the fate of the United States’ pluralist, constitutional democracy.
With little to no oversight and accountability, programs like the Educational Improvement Tax Credit are a pipeline sucking taxpayer money out of underfunded public schools and into the pockets of the wealthy.
The rift lays bare the hostility between the newest flank of Trump’s movement — wealthy members of the tech world like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — and MAGA’s hardline anti-immigration base.
Pennsylvania is losing a devoted fighter with deep experience in Congress.
But this momentum needs to power us into a 2025 that will likely be filled with many challenges.
The events of this past week are more than just a preview of the dysfunction to come — they are a stark reminder of what happens when chaos is mistaken for governance, writes Bucks County’s Colin Coyle.
Mike German spoke with Editor Cyril Mychalejko about his new book “Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within,” which comes out Jan. 7.
