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Hardly anyone, including the federal government itself, has confidence in the constitutionally mandated decennial census that will take place in 2020.
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The Economist magazine is marking its 175th birthday with a special issue that looks back on its history and speculates about the future.
As a Catholic, as a woman and as the daughter of a woman who suffers from past clergy sexual abuse, I share in the pain that the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report has brought to our faith community.
When the call for help comes in, emergency medical services organizations respond.
Public education doesn’t get very many “here’s an overlooked success” stories these days. Particularly in Pennsylvania.
Appearances matter — especially to President Donald Trump.
Eight months after the collapse of President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, his administration has renewed pursuit of its unproven contentions of improper voting, this time with a...
Congressman Mike Kelly’s remark, in a campaign ad, that “I’ll fight to protect and preserve Social Security and Medicare,“ is right up there with Rudy Guilani’s claim...
One of the incessant inanities spouted by President Donald Trump in the past two years concerned “draining the swamp.”
I would like to publicly thank Father Harry, Father Anthony and Father Alek for their dedication in ministering to Butler city Catholic churches of St. Paul’s, St. Peters and St.
Some people didn’t appreciate seeing Mars High School students dressed in red, white and blue attire for America theme night at last Friday’s home football game.
Democrats are bullish about the November elections. They think they’ll win control of the House of Representatives, score big gains in the statehouses and run competitively in contests for U.S.
It has long been an accepted axiom in the United States — and also in many advanced democracies — that the future would be better than the past.
For those in favor of tighter regulations on everything from student loans to carbon emissions, there’s not a lot of joy coming out of the federal government.
Nearly everyone has at least one social media account these days — whether it’s Facebook, Instragram, Snapchat or any of the dozens of other digital platforms that provide people a way to...
If Franz Kafka had written about confirmation hearings, he couldn’t have come up with a better scenario than the one now unfolding in the U.S. Senate.
So much of our reasoning about race is both emotional and faulty.
Case solved.
In just four weeks since its release, Pennsylvania’s gut-wrenching grand jury report on widespread child sexual abuse by Catholic priests has reverberated around the country with attorneys...
Now that the woman behind a fuzzy, anonymous sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has gone public with her accusation, it must be taken seriously.
The world is watching as Russia and the Syrian regime prepare to unleash the biggest bloodbath yet in the Syrian saga of horrors.
President Donald Trump has gone so far as to suggest that he possesses “a magic wand” capable of producing unexpectedly robust economic growth. I don’t know about a magic wand.
If you say you’ve never noticed homeless people living among us, you’re in good company.
Barack Obama is the best president Republicans have ever had.
