Opinion

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...

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 ...

Kaleida Health has hijacked our hospital and is holding us hostage. At the very least we desperately need the choice to be taken by ambulance to a hos...

Not surprisingly, the Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff agenda, ruling that the White House doesn’t have th...

Not since the Interstate Highway System has the United States faced a physical infrastructure issue as complex and consequential as data centers. As w...

Memories tend to be short in American politics, but it was not so long ago that Donald Trump was a first term president and, if we're to be honest, a ...

Have you ever noticed periods in life when certain words keep coming to mind? Sometimes, they are terms that have become popular in our culture. At th...