Obituaries for retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens are reminding us that there was a time — several times, in fact — when presidents chose nominees for the h...
Butler Area School District soon will offer new skills for students in an industry previously on the decline in Pennsylvania but primed to make a local resurgence.
Throu...
Beto O’Rourke, the losing Texas senator candidate who bootstrapped his way into becoming a losing presidential candidate, had a message for refugees who had come to Amer...
The late Alice Rivlin, a longtime scholar at the Brookings Institution think tank, enjoyed an unusually constructive career.
Over more than four decades, Rivlin — who di...
Harrisburg, we have a problem.
The launch of House Bill 1419 — Pennsylvania's Clean Slate Act — blasted off July 1 on a yearlong, speed-of-light mission to seal 30 milli...
Here’s a suggestion. How about setting up some high school rifle clubs? Students would bring their own rifles to school, store them with the team coach and, after classe...
Piggybacking on the outpouring of support for the egregiously underpaid U.S. women’s national soccer team, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio talked big...
There’s an important bit of contingency planning that Republicans have neglected to do. Neither in the White House nor on Capitol Hill are they prepared for the possibil...
It’s getting pretty hot out there.
With temperatures expected to soar into the 90s this week, it’s going to get even more steamy. Much is often rightfully made about pro...
Ed Sanders was both unique and ordinary. He became, in his own way, a hero just for doing his job.
When Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools integrated in North Carolina, if yo...
