My school district has enacted a shadow book ban by checking out all copies of targeted books for an entire year. What’s worse is that they are trying to hide it.
The long-term viability and continued growth of the Bucks County Beacon depends on readers becoming monthly sustainers.
“I think election deniers are looking for any opportunity to disrupt the democratic process. It is a real threat and something we should all be paying attention to,” said Informing Democracy’s Elizabeth Grossman.
On this episode, I welcome Liza Featherstone to the show. Liza Featherstone (@lfeatherz) is an author, journalist, essayist and critic. She is a columnist
As I step into my 30s, there’s no way I’m letting a few old men and an imaginary story about the debt ceiling put another glass ceiling over my future.
Fighting to save Central Bucks School District from the far-right school board’s extremist agenda is a fight for our shared future.
“LGBTQ+ youth exist and benefit from seeing representations, models, and templates for surviving, flourishing, and forming community in a world that is hostile to non-normative genders and sexualities,” says PSU Professor Mary Zaborskis.
The choice of Kari Lake to keynote the event’s gala, the “Ronald Reagan Dinner,” makes it clear that CPAC will continue to promote damaging false claims about voter fraud.
Teacher shortages can lead to larger class sizes, higher burnout and resignation rates, less individual time with teachers, and other factors leading to learning loss and other negative outcomes for students.
On this Democracy Day, I want us to remember: democracy isn’t just something we inherit, it’s something we build — one election, one conversation, one act of civic engagement at a time, writes Bob Harvie.
Because authoritarianism is most visible in hindsight, people often don’t recognize it until it’s too late.
When the truth is unthinkable, we lie to ourselves and one another, writes historian Dr. William Horne.
“These communities in Bucks County were built for working-class people, and for decades it stayed that way. But since 2017, rent has gone up in our region by 50 percent,” said Prokopiak.
“Regardless of where the money comes from, this makes our communities more dangerous because it deteriorates the trust of police and crimes will go unreported,” said Project Libertad Executive Director Rachel Rutter.
