Donald Trump is clearly searching for a way out of Afghanistan.
Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo bluntly explained the president’s directions to him: “End the ...
In 2014, the U.S. led the effort by governments to blunt the world’s biggest outbreak of Ebola, which took more than 11,000 lives in West Africa before it was declared o...
The Pennsylvania General Assembly must hold hearings to determine the effectiveness of Pennsylvania’s parole system after an Associated Press report recently found six h...
The Democrats, egged on by CNN’s moderators, found an awful lot of things to bicker about in Debate 2, Part 2 in Detroit.
As usual, I’m hesitant to predict how any of it...
Is there life on Mars?
For decades, answering that question has been a popular fantasy in books, movies and other media. After conquering the moon, science fiction creat...
It seems unavoidable. Like it or not, the U.S. welfare system is bound to play a big role in the 2020 election. The recent Democratic debate on health care is just a pre...
My hands were such good sports for so many decades that I didn’t even know they were unhappy until they quit working.
At first I was affronted by their betrayal. But in...
Northeast Pennsylvania knows too well the economic pain inherent in the decline of a dominant industry. Its recovery from the loss of anthracite coal mining is a work in...
Before Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate, the first of two this week, one expectation was that it would offer a smackdown between the two progressive populists on...
Apparently, U.S. politics are now so polarized, rational conversation about the federal budget no longer is possible.
Last week, the House of Representatives approved a...
