This just in: American politics is more rough-and-tumble this year than it’s ever been before.
Not so shocking, right? For months it’s been on your television, in your n...
My father’s mother was a diehard Democrat. If Ted Bundy and Charles Manson were running on a ticket touting their record on women’s rights, they’d have her vote as long ...
Another Judgment Day looms for Penn State football. Opening arguments were set to begin today in the civil trial for former assistant coach Mike McQueary in Bellefonte, ...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — If I were to distill a recent public discussion about the state of our nation to one word, it would be “worried.”
Not fearful, not angry, but worr...
Back in 2008, in the weeks leading up to the Obama-McCain presidential election, two young men visited me in Denver. They were from Catholics United, a group describing ...
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Striking a long-awaited blow for sanity, some malls and big box retail outlets are announcing that they will — gasp — close up shop on Thanksgiving Day this year....
Politics is an enduring feature of human life, but political parties are mortal. This week we watched the beginning of the end of one of America’s great, illustrious par...
Gen. Creighton Abrams, a distinguished World War II tank commander and the head of U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War, has two lasting namesakes.
The first is a...
The sorry saga of the Republican Party’s fitful embrace of Donald Trump can best be told by borrowing an old template originally shaped by a faraway Protestant pastor wh...
This shouldn’t take 120 days. Compared to other problems on the Pennsylvania Legislature’s agenda, fixing the constitutional flaw in a casino revenue-sharing law should ...
