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
These Pennsylvania College and University Presidents Say the Trump Administration’s ‘Unprecedented Government Overreach’ Endangers Higher Education
April 25, 2025
There are 480 higher education leaders from across the country who have signed a letter opposing “undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live and work” on their campuses.
Trump Administration’s Proposed Funding Cuts to Head Start Would Harm Vulnerable Bucks County Kids
April 24, 2025
“We should be expanding access, not taking it away. Every child deserves a fair and equitable start, and I’ll fight in Congress to protect programs like Head Start that make that possible,” said Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, a Democratic candidate for Congress in PA-01.
Exclusive: Sheriff Fred Harran Enlists Bucks County in Trump’s Nationwide Immigration Crackdown
April 22, 2025
The Bucks County Sheriff’s office has an application pending to participate in ICE’s 287(g) “task force model”, which essentially makes local law enforcement officers de facto ICE agents.
Photo Essay: Doylestown Action League’s ‘Day of Action’ Against the Trump Administration’s Assault on Democracy
April 20, 2025
There were hundreds of rallies and protests against the Trump Administration across the country Saturday.
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.
