Editorials

Two-thirds of students in the United States leave college with a crushing load of debt. This national debt total is now $1.2 trillion. It’s not only d...

It’s no secret that, in recent years, the value proposition of higher education has come into question. As tuition prices continue to soar — and colle...

President Obama visited a Walmart in Silicon Valley on Friday, where he announced that several hundred companies have committed to ramp up their use o...

Political pressure to bring home the bacon has, perhaps more than anything else, led to runaway federal spending and a debt so big the average mind ca...

The Service Employees International Union is certainly no stranger to playing political hardball. But its recent efforts to use the initiative process...

The wheels of justice have nothing on property tax reform and education funding in this state. Both grind away at a snail’s pace. In the meantime, sen...

Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Obama’s nominee to succeed Kathleen Sebelius as secretary of Health and Human Services, appeared Thursday before the...

The White House initiative against sexual assaults on university and college campuses is a welcome and long overdue effort. It could bring necessary a...

It’s official: Americans enjoy freedom of religion. They do not have freedom from religion. We can thank the Supreme Court’s conservative majority and...

The federal government sends out nearly $77 billion each year to physicians participating in the Medicare program. The taxpayers footing those bills d...

We could hardly believe our ears. Bill Kristol, the hawkish editor of The Weekly Standard, was on TV the other day, commenting on the Obama administra...

We would have preferred that states be given more time and cooperation from the feds in complying with a 2011 Environmental Protection Agency emission...

Ours was a country in which government regulation protected slavery. After a civil war helped end it, government regulations imposed school segregatio...

The cost of gassing up your car or truck is climbing again, as it often does about this time of year. Gasoline prices have been increasing steadily fo...

To the extent that the years following the 2008 financial crisis have constituted a “crisis of capitalism,” it has not been because there is something...

To be sure, Goodwill Industries of North Central Pennsylvania helps people and the environment. It sells inexpensive donated clothing, household goods...

“People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women.” — Unknown “Income tax has made more liars out of the American people...

Dealing with climate change no longer means simply cutting greenhouse gas emissions, although that’s still a necessary element of any coherent strateg...

Factions among and within the right and left disagree about immigration, but nearly all Americans can agree that foreign terrorist shouldn’t step foot...

Is America fundamentally hostile to women? It’s a notion that seems difficult to reconcile with the reality we see around us. In the March jobs report...