Editorial

WASHINGTON — How did the Supreme Court manage to agree unanimously that police must obtain a warrant before searching cellphones, yet split on whether...

Pennsylvanians will experience increased rainfall and floods if data analysis by a Penn State meteorologist and long-term projections by a fisheries b...

BETHESDA, Md. — From her perch as head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Nora Volkow watches anxiously as the country embarks on what she sees ...

WASHINGTON — We’ve created a new economic aristocracy in America: CEOs. That’s a fair reading of recent corporate pay surveys. A study by compensation...

WASHINGTON — Some politicians know they want to be in public office and scramble to come up with the reason why. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is an accidenta...

WASHINGTON — Representatives of prominent conservative groups converged on the Heritage Foundation on Monday afternoon for the umpteenth in a series o...

WASHINGTON — The debate over who lost Iraq is tempting, emotionally satisfying and even, in some cases, historically instructive. But it is not the fo...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Corbett, trailing badly in the polls and running out of time to reconcile anemic tax collections with election-year appetit...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration may have cost Majority Leader Eric Cantor his election. His defeat almost certainly dooms the issue in the House. Cantor...

“I was against gay marriage, until I realized I didn’t have to get one.” James Carville The recent decision by Judge John E. Jones of the Federal Dist...

WASHINGTON — On June 10, 2014, President Obama said that the greatest frustration of his presidency was the failure to pass gun control legislation. I...

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton’s tone-deaf comments about being “dead broke” after she and her husband left the White House were unfortunate, revealing ...

WASHINGTON — When the dyspeptic poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), who loathed Belgium even more than most things, was asked to imagine an epitaph f...

WASHINGTON — So much for the argument that having more people armed in public places will result in fewer gun deaths. One of the three killed recently...

For awhile, it appeared the NRA leadership committed an act of sanity. But, a few hours later, the pills wore off. The story begins with a group calle...

WASHINGTON — It would be difficult, even if intended and planned, to cram more hubris, incompetence and mendacity into a humane and sympathetic act. T...

WASHINGTON — You know how it goes. You lose track of friends and then one day, someone gets in touch to say the friend has left us to our mortal pursu...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — It became clear late last year that Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration would need to be creative if it were to produce an electi...

WASHINGTON — The last few days have offered vivid illustrations of why Hillary Clinton could decide not to run for president — and why, in the end, I ...

Today marks the one-year anniversary of published revelations about the National Security Agency’s sweeping spying activities, courtesy of the documen...