This was the week the real America reintroduced itself to the rest of the world.
All around the planet, people saw how ordinary Americans live and get by on the streets ...
There is something eternally bonding about a shared near-death experience, which is how I first met Michael Cromartie.
This was 15 or so years ago, before I had moved to...
The substance abuse addiction crisis touches every corner and resident of Butler County. We cannot beat addiction with a one-size fits-all approach. What has become very...
One of the least safe places to be in Berkeley, California, is in the vicinity of someone holding a “No Hate” sign.
So-called anti-Fascist, or antifa, activists bearing ...
I spent some hours this week trying to prevent a deportation. I wasn’t successful. It happens, the law must be followed and sometimes the clock runs out. I get it, and I...
Can we get real about “tax reform,” the Republican promise to enact deep tax cuts that will spur economic growth? Probably not, but let’s give it a try.
For starters, we...
Sooner or later, and the later the better, the president’s wandering attention will flit, however briefly, to the subject of trade. So, let us try to think about the pro...
There’s only one real indicator of victory in Afghanistan, and President Donald Trump skipped past it in his speech Monday night. Victory in this nearly 16-year U.S. war...
You know we’ve reached a point of — something — when a sports announcer named Robert Lee is reassigned from calling a University of Virginia college football game becaus...
On the surface, President Trump’s self-inflicted troubles would seem a harbinger of future Democratic successes. But beyond the headlines, signs abound that the oppositi...
