Comment & Opinion

Will President Trump fall prey to the “Pottery Barn Doctrine”? Articulated by Secretary of State Colin Powell in the run-up to the Iraq War, it holds ...

Celebrations broke out across Iran in the wake of U.S. and Israeli strikes over the weekend that killed the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, an...

The weekend attack on Iran by the United States and Israel can be viewed not as the start of a new war, but rather a fresh battle in the four-decade w...

While comparison may be the thief of joy, new affordability data delivers a clear warning: Pennsylvania is affordable today, but that advantage may no...

The small tributary rushed past in a thick, chocolate slurry. Streambanks lay slumped into the flow. Habitat was scoured away. Pools were choked with ...

One doesn’t associate luxury with being in the military, but Pentagon personnel spent record amounts of money dining on seafood in 2025, according to ...

A new statewide survey from RealClear Opinion Research and Emerson Polling found 58% of Pennsylvania residents think ICE enforcement has gone too far,...

About 7 feet above the ground on the front of a former YMCA building in Pittsburgh, a small horizontal plaque reads “HIGH WATER MARK / MARCH 18, 1936....

The federal government lost $186 billion to improper payments in fiscal year 2025, according to newly released data from the Office of Management and ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — France is great. I visit a few times a year, and the food is fantastic, the museums are amazing, and the day care is free (or heavily...

A billboard went up in Scranton this month inviting Gov. Josh Shapiro to “be normal.” The sign, funded by Voices of Americans, a newly formed conserva...

The President of the United States “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Conside...

PHILADELPHIA  (TNS) — When my neighbor told me during last month’s snowstorm that I had to shovel the sidewalk around my house, I thought she was joki...

Pennsylvania’s hunting regulators are looking to expand an initiative that connects landowners in need of help with deer management and hunters who ar...

Is reality finally settling in on Capitol Hill? The nation can only hope. As the national debt rushes toward $39 trillion, and Social Security and Med...

The latest joint polling effort between RealClear Opinion Research and Emerson Polling explores attitudes toward immigration and immigration reform in...

The kindling for catastrophe was piled high. It only needed a match. The 2020s began with a pandemic that shut us in and shattered our shared reality....

So what has Congress done for you lately? Big Beautiful Bill? Sure. I’ll give you that one. And it covered a huge amount of ground, from tax cuts to b...

Some people tend to think of sports as a diversion, and plenty others don’t think much of them at all. Maybe, for many not interested in athletic spec...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania's top leaders want to avoid another ugly, monthslong budget standoff, showing resolve this year to begin negotiations ...