Why can’t we be friends?
That’s the central lyric from a 40-year-old reggae pop song that’s playing in our head today, as fresh as ever, while we read The Associated Pre...
Just when it seems that news on opioid use, prescription and abuse in this country can't get any worse, we're treated to a new revelation.
This time it comes in the form...
Another senseless slaughter in the name of religion took place in Orlando two weeks ago. I mourn the victims who were simply out for an evening of dancing and camaraderi...
Once upon a time, Democrats would sit in to press for civil rights. Today, they sit in to take civil rights away.
How else to describe the goal of this week’s 24-hour si...
It turns out that the middle class isn’t stagnant after all.
You know the conventional wisdom. The richest 1 percent of Americans have siphoned off all the income gains ...
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In “Oh God, where are you?” his biographical account of the Battle of Bataan, Abie Abraham — a Lyndora native — described the hopeless fight he and other American...
Here are some of the things you are not supposed to compare to abortion:
Slavery. That’s because slaves were human, and even though the law treated them as property, the...
Now he’s gone and done it. A bridge too far.
Finally, Republicans are fed up with Donald Trump and going public with their gripes.
Trump’s calculated, racist jihad on Mu...
By the time the shooting stopped in Wilkinsburg on March 9, five adults and an unborn child were dead. Forty-nine shots had been fired; one of the victims had 50 holes i...
State health and education officials are right to tighten rules on vaccine requirements for public school children. Here’s the question, though. Why is the process takin...
