Comment & Opinion

Twenty-two years ago, the U.S. was at war, just as it is today, and a president visited the pope at the Vatican. President George W. Bush’s meeting wi...

(TNS) — Vice President JD Vance and hundreds of expert-level U.S. officials arrived in Islamabad last weekend with a sliver of hope that a deal to end...

If you read the headlines, it’s easy to be discouraged about the American economy. If you follow the trend lines, it’s difficult not to be more optimi...

I do not understand why more people are not displaying the United States flag at their homes. A great many people died protecting it and our way of li...

America often prepares for the war it has just fought. Today, the Pentagon is preparing for the next war, in real time, under fire, against the clock....

In a few weeks, about 170,000 college students will walk across the stage of Pennsylvania’s many colleges and universities. After years of study and h...

The most important number in the United States is $193.6 trillion. That’s how much extra money will be needed to fund Social Security and Medicare ind...

Gov. Josh Shapiro is correct to join 23 other states in challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order that instructs the U.S. Postal Service to...

I knew from an early age that someday I would be a teacher. Throughout my childhood, teachers were always there for me, giving me the safe spaces I ne...

Four astronauts are on a journey around the moon, a mission that offers a rare chance to see our world from a distance, and ourselves more clearly. On...

President Donald Trump’s foes had a field day over the weekend when Iran downed two American planes, an F-15E Strike Eagle and an A-10 Warthog. But ma...

What does Johnstown have to do with San Francisco? Or Warminster with New York, New York? Not much, unless you understand what the left understands — ...

Barack Obama pinpointed a central conflict in American politics back in 2004 while talking with a group of Google executives, “Many people — they’re j...

KANSAS CITY (TNS) — I’ve been pondering a new study that is out this week from Penn’s Wharton Business School. It takes a look at federal spending by ...

President Donald Trump last week offered the nation a defense of America’s offensive against Iran, assuring the country the mission will end “very sho...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro keeps repeating the claim that Pennsylvania is the only growing state in the Northeast. But that’s not true. Residents ...

Pennsylvania has long been a driving force behind America’s energy supply. From the oil fields in Titusville and Bradford and the coal seams of Wester...

NEW YORK (TNS) — When someone says a retiree is “living off Social Security,” it’s not usually $100,000 a year. But some U.S. retired couples will be ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, wants to be president of the United States. He might be better off first attempting to address the many fest...

Taxpayer-funded legal expenses incurred by Harrisburg legislators, uncovered and described by PennLive this week, raise numerous questions about trans...