Quick quiz: Which potential 2016 presidential candidate had this to say about federal anti-poverty programs last week?.
“What do we want? A healthy economy — and a big p...
On my refrigerator door I keep a photo of an exceptional Palestinian woman who ran kindergartens in Gaza in the 1990s for the Philly-based American Friends Service Commi...
When we heard that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had created a potentially lethal safety risk by improperly sending deadly pathogens — like anth...
If police caught you carrying a marijuana cigarette in Washington, D.C., two weeks ago, chances are you would have been arrested, fingerprinted and perhaps jailed.
If yo...
When in comes to keeping track of the Marcellus gas boom in Butler County, maybe we’re simply taking the wrong direction.
Gas regulation is a state issue, but as a state...
After more than two weeks of fighting between Hamas and Israel, there is no question which side has the upper hand. Thursday’s strike on a U.N.-run school for Palestinia...
WASHINGTON — “Checked the tax code,” wrote a friend who’s engaged to a woman from a low-tax country. “Unfortunately, marrying my fiancee does not entitle me to a tax inv...
It was a cash-for-favors sting operation that raised far more questions than it answered.
It began in 2010 when Republican Tom Corbett was attorney general and it target...
NEW YORK — The Ukraine crisis has shone a spotlight on one of the glaring gaps in the world right now — the lack of a strategic and purposeful Europe. The United States ...
WASHINGTON — The president’s demeanor is worrying a lot of people. From the immigration crisis on the Mexican border to the Islamic State rising in Mesopotamia, Barack O...
