Former Vice President John Nance Garner once said the position he held under Franklin Roosevelt wasn’t worth a pitcher of warm spit. The only reason to do the job was th...
Political polarization in the U.S. is intense and damaging. The Supreme Court could take a small step to mitigate it by limiting partisan gerrymandering.
Curtailing pate...
My experience as a Girl Scout was short and bittersweet. When we moved to the suburbs from Philadelphia in 1969, I was recruited by the local Brownie troop to make frien...
One of the most significant milestones in Western history is only two weeks away: the 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation.
It was Oct. 31 — Hall...
President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order on Thursday that may help lower costs and create more options for many Americans who struggle to find health ins...
The U.S. came very close to getting the Kurds to call off a statehood referendum that has thrown the region into turmoil since late last month. But in the end the final ...
We weren’t shy about wagging our finger at state officials in late September when the rating agency Standard & Poor’s knocked the state’s credit rating down a notch.
So ...
Bravo! Pakistani forces, tipped by U.S. intelligence agencies, freed Pennsylvanian Caitlan Coleman, along with her Canadian husband, who had been held captive for five y...
This week, The New York Times front page described the Trump administration’s repeal of the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration’s attempt to slash carbon emission...
Daryl Metcalfe got a partial answer to questions about Pennsylvania Secretary of State Pedro Cortes. But the partial answer didn’t satisfy Metcalfe. Nor should it have. ...
