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
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
Opinion
Media Analysis: With Zero Evidence, NPR Suggests Trump May ‘Work for Working Class’ in Second Term
NPR senior editor and correspondent Ron Elving wants readers to ignore Trump’s first term and instead focus on political theater like Trump “working a shift” at a Bucks County McDonald’s last fall.
Jim Naureckas
February 3, 2025
Opinion
Militias and Mafias: Two Factions Loyal to Trump and the Danger They Pose to Us All
One cohort promises revenge and almost certainly ensures more political violence in Trump’s name. The other has taken a wrecking ball to the federal government, risking the reliability of every service Americans rely on daily.
Melissa Ryan
February 2, 2025
Opinion
Letters: When Bucks County School Districts Actually Need to Allow ICE Agents Inside Schools, The Importance of Pennsylvania’s 2025 Judicial Elections
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
February 1, 2025
Opinion
Words That Wound: How the MAGA Movement’s Language of Immigration Fuels Dehumanization
We must not let the hateful language of immigration continue to corrupt our thoughts, bury the facts, incite violence, and desensitize us into believing that immigrants are less deserving of empathy, basic human rights, and mercy, writes Bucks County’s Laura Rose.
Laura Rose
January 31, 2025
Opinion
The Dangerous Depravity of Trump ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan
Homan has spent the past several years promoting racist conspiracy theories and associating with white nationalists. His mass deportation agenda, now targeting churches and schools, is one of the Administration’s top priorities.
Zach D. Roberts
January 30, 2025
Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick Votes for the SAVE Act, a ‘Dangerous Step Backward for Our Democracy’
April 10, 2025
This bill will disenfranchise millions of voters, especially rural voters, voters of color, and married women who have chosen to change their last names, as numerous nonpartisan organizations have pointed out. But for Fitzpatrick it just didn’t matter.
Pennsylvania Says Schools Already Comply with Civil Rights Laws and Are Not Ordered to Scrap DEI
April 10, 2025
“Regardless of changes taking place at the federal level, the Shapiro Administration will continue to do everything in our power to support Pennsylvania learners, educators, and schools,” said Pennsylvania Department of Education spokesperson Erin James.
Frack Attack: Is the Delaware River Watershed Frack Ban at Risk?
April 10, 2025
The Trump administration has made it clear that environmental protections are not a priority, and very basic federal environmental protections are being stripped away in the name of “U.S. energy dominance.”
Legal Challenges to Trump’s Executive Order on Elections Rest on a Simple Premise: the Constitution
April 7, 2025
The first round of lawsuits all cite the plain text of Article 1, which gives the president no power to regulate elections.
Huge Turnout in Doylestown As Part of Nationwide ‘Hands Off’ Protests Against Trump Administration
April 5, 2025
This is what democracy looks like.
