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A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media.
U.S. presidential elections rarely turn on voters’ views on foreign policy. Domestic issues such as the economy and health care, are almost always seen as more important by voters.
The prescription opioid crisis that has taken well over 100,000 American lives and ruined hundreds of thousands more wasn’t just an accident of time or the byproduct of a dysfunctional society.
One of the worst parts of the entire COVID-19 pandemic has been the scenarios created during end-of-life situations.
My first taste of American greatness was peanut butter.
In light of increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in New York state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has designated certain areas as “red zones.”
We are in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Today, one in 10 Americans is unemployed, and many more are underemployed or at risk of being furloughed or fired.
A complicated conflict in a faraway foreign land isn't likely to compete for attention, but American citizens and policymakers should heed on the spiraling violence in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh...
The urge to rescue the airlines flows from good intentions, but another bailout is not a smart way to help the economy and it will reward CEOs for serial mismanagement and self-enrichment.
For a moment’s respite from pandemic news that can seem unrelentingly bad, cast your mind into the future — say, to November 2021. A world in suspended animation has awakened at last.
The reporting done on election night 2018 offers a cautionary tale for the news media as we approach Nov. 3.
Our nation’s Founding Fathers instituted the national census as a count of all people, an enumeration that is the basis of federal funding, the distribution of political representation among...
The great race for a COVID-19 vaccine has more than 130 medicines in development, with 40 being tested on humans, of which 10 are in large, phase 3 trials. The U.S.
Surely this must be the most dramatic, dangerous moment ever in American politics. Surely we are more bitterly divided than in the past and facing the most consequential election ever.
By all accounts, Amy Coney Barrett is a fine human being, but it’s disconcerting to consider how little we actually know about her after the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings last week on her...
Buried deep within an otherwise reasonable directive by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about COVID-19 testing at reopened schools is wording that is out of sync with both the dangers...
With Venezuela’s main opposition parties planning a boycott of parliamentary elections on Dec. 6, strongman Nicolas Maduro is poised to consolidate control over all three branches of government.
Amy Coney Barrett acquitted herself very well at her confirmation hearings, which means, quite often, she refused to answer questions.
They’re still talking today — pro and con — about Senator John F. Kennedy’s brief stop and talk in Butler Saturday afternoon.
The Cranberry Township EMS deserves a round of applause for receiving a statewide emergency medical services award this week.
The New York Post published a story Wednesday about Joe Biden and his son Hunter that read suspiciously like disinformation.
It would be bad enough if the Great Barrington Declaration, an eight-paragraph manifesto which is shaping White House policy on COVID-19, was simply misguided.
When Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016, refuting the forecasts of virtually all the pollsters, I promised never to trust polls again.
After Tuesday's daylong Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill a vacancy on the U.S.
