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This is Sunshine Week when American news media are highlighting the vital job journalists do regularly by engaging those government officials reluctan...

Nationwide, local and state politicians often resist reforms to reduce violence committed by police, even though sensible reforms would serve officers...

Chicago has more important things to worry about, and we have more important things to write about, than the well-connected “Empire” actor Jussie Smol...

More than a year into the Biden presidency, Vladimir Putin has invaded a sovereign neighboring country and, of course, everyone knows who’s to blame —...

Gasoline? Up. Natural gas? Up. Wheat? Up. The spending power of your bank account? Down, down, down. The U.S. has been experiencing inflation at the h...

Happy Sunshine Week! Wait. What? Last month, Punxsutawney Phil emerged and declared six more weeks of winter, so we’re not talking about the weather. ...

Like most Americans, I’ve spent the last few weeks contemplating the implications of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, including those that ext...

When a news anchor confronted Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm about high gasoline prices and asked about the Biden administration’s plan to increas...

The rights of free speech and a free press are historically and inextricably intertwined. Today and moving forward, these rights demand protection as ...

The great mid-20th-century American statesman Dean Acheson titled his memoir “Present at the Creation,” the story of his role developing the instituti...

As days stretched into weeks, our news screens have been bombarding us with images of brave and determined Ukrainian civilians seeking shelter and som...

Most Americans view nuclear weapons as a relic of the Cold War. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed in 1985 “that a nuc...

In a properly run dictatorship, Dear Leader always wins thunderous electoral victories. You won’t see Vladimir Putin in any late-night cliffhangers. R...

State Republican candidates should be more selective about the company they keep. Numerous GOP candidates have made appearances before the Berks Count...

Watching TV shots of Vladimir Putin’s army deliberately bombing and shelling civilians is like watching a movie of the London Blitz in 1940, when Adol...

There was a striking moment on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. Moderator Chuck Todd brought up a poll recently released by National Public Radio and Ma...

I was appointed state director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development for the Commonwealth in October 2021. Thus far, the highlight...

There are forgivable intellectual and policy errors, and then there’s the self-delusion that has driven the West into its dependence on Vladimir Putin...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to imprison journalists who dare to report truthfully about Russia’s merciless invasion of Ukraine. Hi...

Senate Democrats ended February insisting on a procedural fight over the Women’s Health Protection Act, to get Republicans on record about the issue d...