One person, one vote: that’s the dream of American democracy and, sadly, the myth.
The most powerful American lawmaking body patently violates that principle.
The United...
Figuring out how to combine science with fairness in COVID-19 vaccine distribution is a tricky puzzle. Science can help predict how to distribute limited doses to minimi...
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...
This page often provides space for criticism or debate, but every once in a while there’s a story we come across that simply deserves praise.
In Friday’s Eagle, we ran a...
The Biden administration is examining ways to accelerate the process of adding abolitionist Harriet Tubman’s face to the $20 bill.
It’s important that these new notes “...
The same as people had a right to be concerned that former President Donald Trump might abuse the powers of the office he held as his term expired, it is time to pull in...
It’s been 13 months since China shut down a region of 18 million people because of the rapid human-to-human transfer of a new strain of coronavirus.
It’s been a year sin...
How and when to phase out COVID-19 relief programs is one of the most difficult policy problems that the Biden administration will have to solve.
Eventually, the virus w...
On Sunday, Jan. 24, the Butler Eagle reported that Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry Acting Secretary Jennifer Berrier announced that for those who are eligibl...
Andy Jassy, Amazon’s incoming CEO, has a conference room nicknamed the Chop. As Business Insider puts it in a profile of Jassy, “The Chop is where ideas, and sometimes e...
