The Trump administration has made no bones about its frustration with the coverage it receives from various media outlets. And it’s true that many in the press haven’t be...
Think you own that new car you just bought? Not all of it.
As many Americans are learning, automakers own their data, and they’re trying to dictate who can fix the vehicl...
Two hundred fifty years ago this summer, delegates met in Philadelphia and signed their names to a document that risked everything. The Declaration of Independence was a ...
For generations, farmers in Butler and surrounding counties have worked the land, battling the natural tendencies of Pennsylvania soil.
While modern fertilizers and high...
From the founding, Americans understood that a republic depends on the character and judgment of its citizens. In the years after the Revolution, that insight took shape ...
The sharp rise in gasoline prices caused by the Iran war has led to bipartisan calls, and in some cases action, to reduce U.S. gas taxes. At least three Republican-run st...
Conservatism is in decline. True, it’s not dead — in 2025, a larger share of Americans described themselves as conservative, 35%, than liberal, 28%, but this seven-point ...
Few dispute that America’s public debt is growing unsustainably and that, sooner or later, the task of reining it in will be unavoidable. Oddly, this presumption of inevi...
No amount of advertising money can sell a bad product — or at least, a product that consumers have determined they don’t want (see: New Coke). This time-tested business p...
Healthy soil doesn’t usually make headlines, but it should.
Beneath every productive farm is a living system that quietly determines whether crops thrive or struggle, wh...
The resignations of three members of Congress over misconduct allegations demonstrate that the U.S. House — which most Americans think can’t get its act together — not on...
I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it.
In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a system that was imperfect in its origins but evo...
Noncompete agreements, once reserved for executives with unique access to trade secrets, have gone mainstream in America.
According to the Government Accountability Offi...
When will the U.S. government confirm that aliens exist? How many people will fall ill with measles this year? Will President Donald Trump be impeached?
Today, you can be...
April 24 is Arbor Day, when Americans will gather to plant trees on city streets, in parks and within other open spaces. But this year, as wildfires, drought and flooding...
From the ultra-deep waters of Brazil’s Santos Basin to the arid shale fields of Argentina’s Patagonia, a new hydrocarbon boom is welling up across Latin America.
About 44...
“If the great brain of NASA were attached to any particular sense, it was the eye,” wrote Norman Mailer in his psychedelic history of the Apollo program. Whatever else on...
Americans’ fatigue is rising as costs climb, crises multiply and leaders focus on spectacle instead of solutions. This exhaustion is not personal — it is political, weake...
In an 8-1 decision last week, the Supreme Court struck down a Colorado law that prohibited so-called conversion therapy aimed at changing the gender expression or sexual ...
For decades, there’s been a quasi-clandestine accord about expanding oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Nobody wanted to go there — well, except the oil and gas companie...
Pennsylvania has 61,000 jobs that require education beyond high school and not enough qualified workers to fill them. By 2032, the gap will grow to 218,000 jobs that lack...
When the Trump administration launched the war in Iran a month ago, higher oil and energy prices were surely expected, yet there was a positive feeling that the U.S. econ...
As the market for portable products offering recording capabilities continues to expand, so does the risk that comes with how users choose to use the technology.
In Minn...
I’m going to say something from my firsthand experience as a mom: Schools have a terrible track record with screens. It tends to be adoption first, skepticism later (and ...
South Asia has had three youth-led revolts and three changes of government — and still has three countries with problems that haven’t changed a bit.
In February, Banglade...
The children from the Shajareh Tayebeh primary school, a girls’ school in Minab, Iran, should have been sitting in classrooms, giggling with their friends and dreaming ab...
