Public education funding was one of the issues that fueled Tom Wolf’s election win for governor earlier this month. His charge that public education spending had been sl...
Having commemorated Veteran’s Day this week, one genuine way to honor those who’ve served the nation is to overhaul the massive Veterans Affairs health system to ensure ...
Alan Simpson received top billing in the most serious attempt at bipartisan fiscal reform of the modern era, the Simpson-Bowles commission, the very epitome of compromis...
Nov. 14 is World Diabetes Day, a time to get a grip on this epidemic.
By next year in the United States, there will be almost 40 million people with diabetes, 83 million...
Sarah Coyne is on to something.
The junior class student and some of her classmates at Seneca Valley High School took part in a technology fast — a 24-hour period withou...
Drug addiction is nothing less than an epidemic. And we all suffer from it — it’s a safe assumption that everyone in our community has been touched in some way by the ra...
Even before the drubbing his party suffered in last week’s congressional election, President Obama was visibly frustrated by Republicans’ tenacious opposition to his sec...
Republicans’ resounding midterm gains include a U.S. Senate majority and greater House dominance, but they still go only so far in achieving what voters really want: sup...
The scariest term that economists have been throwing around lately is “secular stagnation.” It means the economy is in a slump that it may never be able to escape.
It’s ...
On Nov. 11, 1921, the remains of an unknown World War I American soldier were buried on a hillside overlooking the Potomac River in Arlington National Cemetery. The sole...
