When the Egyptian military overthrew Mohamed Morsi in July, little more than a year after he was elected president, it insisted that it was acting as a guardian of democ...
NEW YORK — If there’s one issue on which the left and right agree, it is the crisis of declining mobility. The American dream at its core is that a person, no matter his...
Last week, over the course of several days, millions of cellphones across the Western United States buzzed like fire alarms — loudly and, to some, annoyingly — as author...
Americans tend to know full well what they think of government surveillance programs of the sort that Russian immigrant Edward Snowden exposed to public scrutiny before ...
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s increasingly grandiose claims for presidential power are inversely proportional to his shriveling presidency. Desperation fuels arrogance as,...
Amid all the recent rancor among Butler County horse owners over the proper care of their animals, there are two key points that nobody disputes.
The first point is that...
WASHINGTON — “Colleagues,” said the June 27 letter to 98 U.S. senators, “now it is your turn.” The letter’s authors are Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the...
The Pyrotechnics Guild International, a 3,000-member organization of fireworks artists, is conducting its 2013 “BOOM & a Blast” convention this week in Butler County.
A ...
WASHINGTON -- When I was a young reporter in the 1970s, one of my assignments was covering the troubled U.S. steel industry, which was taking a beating from new technolo...
WASHINGTON — In today's contentious political climate, when hardly anyone agrees on anything, here's a rare subject of consensus: Health spending is slowing, and almost ...
