Where are living standards the highest? You might think that’s an easy question to answer. Just take a country’s total income (in the United States, that’s now about $18...
Ending on a proverbial high note is always a desirable outcome. In this week’s rush to pass bills in the final days of Pennsylvania’s current two year legislative sessio...
Gov. Tom Wolf recently negotiated a new collective bargaining agreement with AFSCME labor force that includes nearly 32,000 state employees.
According to the state’s Ind...
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Unless it’s a Trojan horse, of course. A Trojan horse should get a thorough inspection.
Some myths and axioms have been around so l...
When told that the New England transcendentalist Margaret Fuller had grandly declared “I accept the universe,” the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle dryly remarked: “S...
To get a sense of why AT&T wants to buy Time Warner for $85 billion (and why the deal makes sense), consider how your screen-watching habits have changed over the past d...
Disgraced and convicted former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane showed few signs of remorse at her sentencing hearing Tuesday on felony counts of perjury and ...
Hillary Clinton may be the first candidate in American history to win a contest of personalities without having one.
She has been content to make the election all about ...
Pennsylvania’s General Assembly is on a reprehensible streak when it comes to advancing 11th-hour legislation that would roll back transparency in government and grievou...
In this dreary season of continuously leaked emails and braggadociously pawed lady-bits, it can be hard to imagine Nov. 8 bringing anything more positive than a temporar...
