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Plant a sunflower victory garden for Ukraine

There was a time in our not so distant past when Americans planted gardens during wartime to both replenish crops and to show solidarity for troops fighting overseas. Ame...

March 26, 2022 Editorial

A tough interview

No matter what your political party, you have to admit any candidate being grilled for the job of U.S. Supreme Court justice is made of sterner stuff than most of us. The...

March 25, 2022 Our Opinion

Food banks must solve the 'acorn squash problem'

A major problem with how food donation currently works in the United States is that a lot of the calories in those boxes and bags come from items that aren't particularl...

March 25, 2022 Editorial

Democracy is a victim of indifference

As President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine has starkly illustrated “the battle between democracy and autocracy,” and new...

March 25, 2022 Editorial

Why are we still waiting for all the Capitol riot hearings?

Most of the time I think that some of the things that political scientists and smart journalists are teaching are getting through. And then, sometimes, we get something l...

March 25, 2022 Other Voices

Candidates cry over debate rules raises eyebrows

The first rule for being a “servant of the people” should be that the people make the rules. The pompous “candidates’ for governor of Pennsylvania who released their own...

March 24, 2022 Our Opinion

Putin may finally be gearing up for cyber war

Cybersecurity experts have been puzzled by the absence of a major cyberattack from Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine and in retaliation for crippling sanction...

March 24, 2022 Other Voices

An elegy for Mariupol, where I walked six weeks ago

I still don’t know if Alina has made it out of Mariupol, or whether she is alive. When Russian bombs pummeled the Ukrainian city three weeks ago, I lost contact with my s...

March 24, 2022 Other Voices

We face threat of nuclear war again

In April 1961, a family sat around a kitchen table in Western Pennsylvania and listened to a special radio broadcast. President John F. Kennedy was addressing the nation ...

March 23, 2022 Editorial

Evil wins when left alone

Evil, when it knocks on the door, when it walks in the room, when it surrounds us and smiles at its likely victory, is one of the worst things in life. Still, we are seei...

March 23, 2022 Other Voices

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