Beginning in 1880 — before the words “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” were stamped on the Statue of Liberty dedicated 132 yea...
There are so many better ways the U.S. could have handled the slaying of Jamal Khashoggi. Within hours of his disappearance, for instance, the American ambassadors to Tu...
It’s not any less awful for being so familiar.
The last three high-profile attacks that have convulsed the nation, two in just the past week or so, have been carried ou...
October has not been kind to Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled General Assembly.
Lawmakers predictably flubbed, at the last minute, a years-long effort to give voters...
CHENGDU, China — One reason for the fashionable fear that Beijing is out to overtake America is the worry that China will soon outstrip the United States in key areas of...
For decades the families of people with serious mental illnesses have been asking for assistance getting their loved ones the help that could change their lives — or sav...
Had Cesar Sayoc been a little more competent or the Secret Service and U.S. Postal Service a little less, his disturbing attempt last week to assassinate leading Democra...
The pain and sorrow — nevermind the virulent hate and runaway evil that spurred a mass shooting Saturday at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh — takes our breath away....
President Donald Trump has announced his first potentially strong action against America’s inordinate prescription drug prices — the first that could meaningfully lower ...
With respect to politics, ours is an age of Manichaeism. Many people think and act as if the forces of light are assembled against the forces of darkness, and the only s...
