It has been said that nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
Nearly two decades ago, while I was serving as U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Alaska’s Sens. Frank Murkowski ...
At first glance, the announcment of a blood test capable of predicting the onset of Alzheimer’s disease as much as three years in advance isn’t much to celebrate. There’...
It could turn out that Dale Lumley is the best candidate to be the next superintendent at the Butler School District, but the board should extend its self-imposed deadli...
When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, one of his selling points was the promise of a more modest foreign policy than that of his predecessor. And when Obama won ...
Less than a decade after it started requiring students to write an essay as part of the SAT, the College Board announced last week that it is eliminating that portion of...
WASHINGTON — The crisis in Ukraine reminds us that the future is unpredictable, that wars routinely involve miscalculation and that brute force — boots on the ground, bo...
I thought I was thoroughly familiar with junk mail until we began the college-application process. Now each day I come home to four or five brochures addressed to my hig...
Today in Harrisburg, legislation is to be introduced that could lead to the break-up of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education — a 120,000-student, 14-campus ...
WASHINGTON — When the going gets tough, well, why not just make the going easier?
This seems to be the conclusion of the College Board, which administers the dreaded SAT...
The Oscars did the right thing by bestowing the honor of best picture to “12 Years a Slave.” The movie earned it.
Based on the true story of Solomon Northup’s debasement...
