We have to give President Donald Trump credit: He’s a master of distraction. Whenever his administration finds itself in crisis, especially one of Trump’s own making, he...
If Pennsylvania’s mid-term election cycle wasn’t already topsy-turvy enough. Gov. Tom Wolf — a Democrat who is himself up for reelection — made it even more interesting ...
There’s already a trade war, and it’s being waged by Beijing.
China’s ascension to the World Trade Organization nearly 20 years ago has failed in its large-scale strateg...
With metronomic regularity, every thousand days or so, Americans should give some thought to the longest war in their nation's history. The war in Afghanistan, which is ...
Insurance companies, part of the health care industry, don’t often resort to military analogies to tout their initiatives. But Highmark Inc.’s announcement last week dec...
The tussle over tariffs is the most significant political battle taking place in America right now — much broader than a dispute over steel and aluminum imports. It is t...
If you had to pick a word that best describes the Trump presidency so far, it might be “surreal.” And few developments affirm that more than news that President Donald T...
If like many — if not most — Butler County residents, you expected 2018 to continue last year’s heartbreaking wave of opioid overdose deaths, the first two months of the...
Here we go again.
The massacre in Parkland, Fla., has been followed by revelations that the alleged perpetrator was an avid video gamer.
Cue the moral panic, which almos...
The controversy over President Trump’s proposed tariffs on imports of steel (25 percent) and aluminum (10 percent) is less about economics than ego — Trump’s ego. Frustr...