Editorials

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has a silly solution for a serious problem. Scores of customers at local casinos continue to leave kids locked i...

Hunger should be rare in the United States, which has the capacity to feed not just itself but most of the world. Economics, logistics, culture, polit...

The House select committee hearings into the Capitol insurrection have established two facts virtually beyond debate: One, former President Donald Tru...

Pennsylvania Republican officials who endorsed Democratic nominee Josh Shapiro for governor deserve praise for putting duty, honor, and country before...

The war on drugs has been long, hard-fought and expensive. Since the 1970s, America has battled wave after wave of new, more lethal drugs hitting our ...

The initial news accounts sounded so similar to past years that they were almost repetitive: A wildfire had broken out in a national park and was burn...

The apparently pending Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade is an affront to women’s rights to biological self-determination and to all Ameri...

About two million private sector workers in Pennsylvania — more than 40% of the workforce — don’t have access to an automatic retirement savings plan ...

The Supreme Court draft ruling overturning Roe v. Wade raises just as many arguments and counterarguments as the original ruling that Justice Samuel A...

Much of the world reacted in horror at Russian atrocities in the town of Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, one month ago. After the Russian army retreated, Ukr...

The Supreme Court justices down in Washington just sent a clear message to a Supreme Court justice up in Steuben County: In assessing partisan redistr...

Once upon a time in Pennsylvania, every town of a certain size or importance seemed to have its own college. There were reasons for this. Many of thes...

Gas prices “are going to go up” and we “can’t do much” about it. Those are words that no American president wants to say, but that’s exactly what Pres...

Three consecutive chopped-up school years have had the expected effect on student learning. New research shows that growing numbers of kids are fallin...

Many of us in America feel a need now to somehow confront the Russian government and its strongman leader Vladimir Putin over the unjust and illegal i...

As the seemingly (but not-for-certain) less severe omicron variant elbows out delta and political leaders across America try to stave off fresh hospit...

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus The following Christmas classic, written by Francis P. Church, was first published in 1897 by The New York Sun. ...

There has been a lot of talk about how the labor shortage — in Pennsylvania and around the country — is hitting different industries hard. It’s changi...

Bob Dole was among the best of a generation of Americans who believed this country had both the ability and obligation to do great things at home and ...

Flashing lights in the rearview mirror and the whine of a siren are almost never welcome. They are, at best, the beginning of an irritating delay and ...