What’s 75 years old, in need of repair and struggling with crushing debt? The Pennsylvania Turnpike. And in what has become a time-honored tradition of sorts, starting n...
Over the years, I have watched campaigns in third world countries in which one candidate accuses the other of being a criminal, sometimes even threatening to jail his op...
If economic commentators seem to agree on one thing, it is this: Jobs in America have become less secure. If you’ve got an OK job, don’t let go, because you may not be a...
You don’t have to think Donald Trump should be elected president to think those having at some of his supporters are sometimes just plain out of it.
To be sure, they wer...
Ho. Hum.
The best and brightest stars of the political news world are gathered this entire week in Cleveland for the Republican National Convention — and yet with a myri...
On Sunday Pittsburgh mourned the outbreaks of violence against police officers in this country, in a touching reminder that unity and peace can be powerful weapons in th...
In the past two weeks, the “war on police” has gone from a metaphor to a reality, with eight officers killed in targeted attacks in Dallas and Baton Rouge.
The country h...
National party conventions, which long ago ceded the job of choosing presidential nominees to the primaries and caucuses, have two remaining jobs.
The first one is publi...
BRUSSELS — The terrorist who decimated a holiday crowd in Nice on Bastille Day was the latest incarnation of the nightmare confronting police in Brussels, Paris, Toulous...
Four years ago an Associated Press reporter conducted a little experiment. He walked down a busy street in New York City picking up empty cigarette packages.
What he fou...
