Republican senators soon will be receiving an invitation to tear apart the GOP ahead of the 2020 elections, and they are going to decline to accept it.
It’s a trope of p...
Donald Trump went to the World Series game in Washington Sunday night, with predictable results: He was fiercely booed.
That’s fine; there’s a long, mostly healthy hist...
There is victory, and then there is justice. In America’s long war versus those who commit terror, the pursuit of these two noble aims isn’t synonymous.
Victory against ...
Today, the Butler Eagle salutes our communities’ firefighters, police officers and ambulance personnel with our “Heroes on the Homefront,” a 20-page special section.
The...
It increasingly seems that the fate of Donald Trump’s presidency will be settled by that old political standby: public opinion.
By all reports, Democrats have more than ...
Though the attribution is disputed, the writer C.S. Lewis is said to have quipped: “You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”
It may be closer to the ma...
Elizabeth Warren’s $800 billion plan to improve public education, like many of her plans, is admirable in its ambitions but misguided in its approach.
If the federal go...
Now that Gov. Tom Wolf has signed an executive order for Pennsylvania to join nine other states in a program to push power companies to reduce carbon emission, climate c...
The Postmaster General Hero Award is given to U.S. Postal Service employees who go above and beyond the call of duty to protect human life and property.
It is an award t...
Nine years ago, beginning in Tunisia, a series of street protests across the Middle East turned the region upside down and became known as the Arab Spring.
At times in ...
