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Herd immunity from the COVID-19 virus is the place we want to be. The quickest and most efficient way of getting there is widespread vaccination. Acro...

Between our two families, we are raising 11 children. Under the American Families Plan, we could start collecting up to $33,600 per year in child paym...

On New Year’s Eve of 1879, Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance” premiered, featuring lovable corsairs relegated to the eponymous Cornish seasi...

For more than a year, the promise has been there. Pull together. Keep your distance. Wear a mask. Follow the rules. Do all of this, and the coronaviru...

In an ideal world powered by an ideal economy, extension of and improvements to America’s infrastructure would be developer-driven. But the ideal is s...

The government of Canada has imposed sanctions on nine high-ranking Russian officials for “gross and systematic human rights abuses.” The most promine...

When you cast a vote, it’s important to know exactly what’s going on. You need to know what the race is. You also need to know exactly who the people ...

Pennsylvania’s unemployment centers have failed to keep up with last year’s surge in demand, and thousands of state residents have been thrust into a ...

House Democrats are reportedly pressing President Joe Biden to reverse U.S. policy on Cuba once again, returning to the detente that prevailed before ...

Can the federal government ban evictions? Seems like a pretty straightforward question. But the answer touches on a deeper one, as yet unsettled: Will...

The decisions (or the lack thereof) that made Texas’ power grid vulnerable to the calamitous winter storm that left millions without heat and water ar...

Republican state legislators often champion local government control, as when they insist on sending most proceeds from the natural gas local impact f...

There are more than 700 nursing homes in Pennsylvania. More than 88,000 people, mostly older individuals, live there — whether for the long term or a ...

In September, five international labor auditing firms declared they could no longer help companies audit their supply chains in China’s Xinjiang regio...

When foreign policy scholars list the best secretaries of state of the last half-century, the usual choices are Henry A. Kissinger, the brilliant but ...

How will President Joe Biden handle “Vladimir the Poisoner”? That’s what Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny called Vladimir Putin this week, sho...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — With less than two years left in his term, Gov. Tom Wolf is running out of time to implement his agenda. That’s the only reason I ca...

Along with many Pennsylvanians, I was astounded upon learning that the state secretary of health, Dr. Rachel Levine, was nominated to serve in the new...

County leaders from throughout Pennsylvania have unveiled five key county government legislative priorities for 2021, led by a call for election refor...

President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for education secretary, Miguel Cardona, will face a host of pandemic-related challenges that have disproportionat...