In a Dec. 30 editorial the Butler Eagle asked judicial candidates for the open seat in the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County to offer suggestions in response to the...
The recent capture of two American citizens, one from Houston, among Islamic State forces fighting in Syria is a stark reminder of the global nature of the conflict ther...
Watching the struggle over funding for a border wall, I am struck by the way in which, in one sense, Donald Trump has already achieved success. He has been able to conju...
President Donald Trump is playing with the idea of declaring a national emergency to build a border fence despite congressional opposition.
This would make Trump the se...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Charles Schumer left empty-handed from their White House meeting with President Donald Trump on Wednesday. And so d...
President Trump did something Tuesday night that he has rarely done since taking office: He used the presidential bully pulpit to reach beyond his hardcore base of suppo...
Political compromises in Washington aren’t easy to find these days, but for how long can an obvious solution to a standoff be ignored?
As he reiterated in his address t...
The overflow crowds and effusive responses to Elizabeth Warren’s public speeches in Iowa over the weekend said a few things about the mood of the state’s Democrats: They...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s so-called Green New Deal makes the obligatory nod to the original New Deal, but FDR’s handiwork is much too modest an antecedent.
The Green N...
In reference to efforts to teach black children, the president of the St. Petersburg, Fla., chapter of the NAACP, Maria Scruggs, said: “The (school) district has shown t...
