Those watching Sen. Arlen Specter’s long career in public service might at times have felt like they were watching a vigorous tennis match between admiration and disappo...
Economic sanctions against Iran are beginning to bite, and hard. The country’s currency has fallen more than 40 percent since Sept. 24. Skyrocketing inflation is destroy...
It’s ironic that just as the U.S. poverty rate rises to its highest level in more than four decades, the Pell Grant program — the most important source of federal aid fo...
It’s appalling enough that 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who publicly championed the cause of education for girls in Pakistan, was shot in the head and neck and critical...
DALLAS — If in four weeks a president-elect Mitt Romney is seeking a Treasury secretary, he should look here, to Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of...
Following several decades of declining population, the Pittsburgh metropolitan area appears to be stabilizing — or even growing slightly. The latest census figures show ...
Every fall, students across the nation welcome a new school year with new teachers, new books, new supplies - and old lessons. Re-teaching material from the previous sch...
Last week’s debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney was an even bigger win for Romney than it appeared at the time. That’s what the polls are telling us.
The deba...
I want more from the two men who seek to lead my country than what we saw in that debate last week. This country is in deep trouble, but neither candidate gave us a seri...
Last week’s news that unemployment dropped to 7.8 percent prompted a form of schizophrenia among some conservatives who asserted that the numbers weren’t that good, and ...
