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During this past week a three-year-old boy in Rock Hill, S.C., killed himself when he was playing with a loaded gun in his house. He wasn’t the only o...

WASHINGTON — Inflammatory rhetoric inflames. Words — extreme language and overheated representations — have consequences. The killer bears the ultimat...

WASHINGTON — The news in Jon Meacham's biography of George H.W. Bush involved Bush 41's dyspeptic views of Bush 43's senior advisers — "iron-ass" Dick...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's offenses against taste, tolerance and truthfulness are coming so fast that it is hard to pick out individual cases. But le...

WASHINGTON — As the administrative state distorts America's constitutional architecture, Clarence Thomas becomes America's indispensable constitutiona...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania is now five months into a budget impasse with taxes the main sticking point — a scenario familiar to anyone who's tried...

WASHINGTON — Surely he's finally gone and done it now. Donald Trump, insulter extraordinaire, was bound to cross a line too far. Two days before Thank...

WASHINGTON — Give thanks this day for some indirect blessings of liberty, including the behavior-beyond-satire of what are generously called instituti...

Each year, the staff of The Era offers its thanks and provides insight into what enriches our lives as we come upon another Thanksgiving holiday. Of c...

WASHINGTON — The presidential candidate who has consistently led the Republican field for four months, Donald Trump, has proposed: forcibly expel 11 m...

WASHINGTON — It would be easy to call protesting college students crybabies and brats for pitching hissy fits over hurt feelings, but this likely woul...

WASHINGTON — One week, Beirut and Paris; the next week, Mali. The nightmare is young. Where next? The pace and threat of terror seem to have picked up...

WASHINGTON — The political aftermath of the Paris attacks is tracing a trajectory as familiar as it is disappointing. The fundamental question — how t...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The past few years have been a difficult and sometimes humiliating period for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, as one headline-grabbi...

WASHINGTON — Never has American freedom of speech been attacked so flagrantly, promiscuously and on so many fronts. The most egregious examples come f...

Fear, laced with paranoia, is driving the American response against allowing Syrian refugees into the United States. President Obama has said he would...

(Editor’s note: The following is a guest commentary from Rob Gleason, chairman of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania. It is in response to the Polit...

WASHINGTON — An event that invokes widespread fear and confusion, such as the Paris attacks, is also an occasion for leadership. The resulting intense...

WASHINGTON — Paris was for all Americans, but especially for Republicans, a summons to seriousness that should have two immediate impacts on the Repub...

WASHINGTON — We shouldn't be surprised that many Americans fear the fresh arrival of Syrian refugees in the wake of last week's Paris slaughter by jih...