If you’re a cynic, you would probably say we were always destined to end up here: one week into the state’s new fiscal year with an unsigned budget, a looming structural...
Niccolo Machiavelli wrote that a ruler should seek to be both loved and feared — but if a prince must choose one, he should opt for fear. President Trump has managed the...
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the ranks of the uninsured would increase by 22 million under a Senate bill to replace ObamaCare. That figure goosed Senat...
STAT, a national publication focusing on health launched by the Boston Globe in 2015, last week published a startling report based on interviews with public health exper...
Should we just expect every single one of President Donald Trump’s initiatives to be rolled out in the most bumbling, inept and self-defeating way possible?
The latest e...
PHILADELPHIA — Some American history museums belabor visitors with this message: You shall know the truth and it shall make you feel ashamed of, but oh-so-superior to, y...
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a letter written by John Adams to his wife, Abigail, on July 3, 1776, in Philadelphia. It was the day after the Declaration of Indepe...
On the eve of Independence Day, officials with the Wolf Administration are urging Pennsylvanians to keep fireworks safety and laws in mind. Fireworks used improperly can...
This is the summer of our discontent. As Americans celebrate July 4, they are mad at their leaders, their government and each other. A recent Pew poll finds “public trus...
Does anyone really know Ronald Reagan?
In his new book “The Working Class Republican,” Henry Olsen answers “no.” One of the most astute political analysts at work today ...
