The General Assembly’s chronic ailments — an addiction to gambling (expansions); procrastination; and obesity (the 250-member body is the second-largest in the country) ...
On Oct. 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln announced that the nation would celebrate an official Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 26, 1863, in gratitude for the pivotal ...
Charles Manson died on Sunday night after being admitted to a hospital in Bakersfield on Wednesday. The infamous cult leader, who was convicted along with three of his f...
Thanksgiving: Time for family to gather, eat food, watch football, go shopping. And maybe, if we’re lucky, tell a story or two.
I love stories. Growing up, though, I rar...
SEATTLE — There are a million reasons why our brains are important, so I’m glad that Bill Gates added $50 million to efforts to understand one of the ways the brain can ...
Take a close look at the reactions to the weekend shooting of rookie New Kensington police patrolman Brian Shaw.
Throughout the day Sunday and Monday, there was a steady...
Back in the ’70s I was attending an annual editors’ meeting when I was asked in a confidential session what I was working on. At the time I was a managing editor for inv...
An editorial from the Los Angeles Times:
Stories about powerful men engaging in sexual misconduct are becoming so common that, as with mass shootings, the country is in ...
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell is right — Roy Moore should quit the race for the U.S. Senate.
Moore is the Alabama candidate who has been credibly accused by several wome...
Most Americans likely think that our trade policies have been largely the same since the Republic’s earliest days. The assumptions are that we’re free traders now and al...
