Opinion
Moms for Liberty’s Extremism Starts at the Top
The group’s founders have a lengthy history of disruption, scandal, harassment, and threats of violence.
Maurice T. Cunningham
February 11, 2024
Opinion
Opinion
Not Your Father’s Republican Party?
Trump isn’t the problem; he is a symptom of a worsening sickness that has afflcited the GOP for decades.
Connor OHanlon
February 9, 2024
Opinion
This Black History Month, Fight for the Freedom to Learn
More than ever, we need to protect our schools, libraries, and kids from censors and book banners. Our country will be better for it.
Svante Myrick
February 8, 2024
Opinion
Trump Was Not King and Can Be Prosecuted for Crimes Committed While President
The appeals court’s decision, particularly if the Supreme Court allows it to stand, is likely to have ramifications across the U.S. legal and political systems for decades.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
February 7, 2024
Opinion
Gerald L.K. Smith: The Ghost of Christian Nationalism’s Past
Today’s Republican extremists are (perhaps unwittingly) influenced by a wannabe Christian Nationalist demagogue from the 1940s.
Hank Kennedy
February 6, 2024
Opinion
The Real Reason Your Grocery Bill Is Still So High
It’s not inflation, it’s actually corporate greed keeping food prices high. It’s now time to turn the tables on our food system by centering justice over profits.
Sonali Kolhatkar
February 4, 2024
Opinion
The Way We Treat Our Unhoused Neighbors Is Criminal
The death of a homeless Bucks County woman last week reminds us that we are failing the least fortunate among us.
Pat LaMarche
February 2, 2024
Opinion
OPINION: Rolling Stone Goes Cherry-Picking with Critique of Pentagon Report
Bucks County Veteran Steve Nolan believes the DOD was right to examine extremism within the military’s ranks, but that the media outlet’s coverage of it was misleading.
Steve Nolan
February 2, 2024
Opinion
For 150 Years, Black Journalists Have Known What Confederate Monuments Really Stood For
Confederate monuments were part of a relentless propaganda campaign to restore the South’s reputation and are symbols of the violent backlash against Black citizenship by white Southerners.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
February 1, 2024
Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie Announces Run to Unseat Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick in 2026
April 3, 2025
“The reason I win tough races is simple – I listen to people and I fight for them,” Harvie said.
Pennsylvania Health Advocates Say Governor Shapiro Has Let Residents Down on Fracking Protections
April 3, 2025
A new report assesses the governor’s first two years, concluding that a few positive steps are outweighed by larger inaction.
How Democrats Can Win By Organizing from the County Up
April 2, 2025
In her new role as a party leader, Jane Kleeb is organizing Democrats to go on the offensive.
Pennsylvania Immigrant Rights Advocates Urge Passage of the American Dream and Promise Act
March 31, 2025
“It is inconceivable that after decades of promises and political posturing, Congress has yet to pass a permanent solution for undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children and other undocumented people,” said Make the Road PA’s Armando Jiménez.
Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick’s Phony Telephone Town Halls Are Like Crank Calls to Democracy
March 30, 2025
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.
