Federal officials have had eight months since the coronavirus arrived in the U.S. to work out how to test for COVID-19 well enough to get to grips with the pandemic.
Th...
The Democratic National Convention portrayed an America suffering from every possible sort of malady — except urban unrest.
Is the country going through a terrible pande...
Parents, legislators, taxpayers and others footing the bill for college education might be interested in just what is in store for the upcoming academic year.
Since many...
The question of how to formally nominate a president and vice president during a pandemic has been answered.
Throw an unconventional convention, as the Democrats did las...
The University of North Carolina and Notre Dame have both suspended in-person classes because of an outbreak of COVID-19 cases among students.
Yet both will continue the...
Today the American people are under attack by two serious diseases, one a deadly pandemic virus and the other a vicious plague of opioid drugs.
Opioid use disorder, or O...
In a classic case of kicking the can down the road, the PIAA board voted Friday to let individual school districts decide whether to have fall sports in their high schoo...
The COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. fortunately had minimal overlap with the influenza season’s typical December-February peak. But that grace period is coming to a close ...
I am a high school English teacher and have been for 14 years. I am also a doctoral candidate, mother of a rising kindergartner and am married to a fellow high school te...
On Aug. 7, the United States intelligence community issued a dire warning — Russia and China are actively interfering with the world’s oldest democratic system. The two ...