opinion

It’s wrong to censor RFK Jr.
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
May 06, 2023
ABC News did a wide-ranging interview with Robert Kennedy Jr. the other day. The ABC reporter asked him a number of challenging questions, notably abo...
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Cross-filing absurdity must end
Opinion, Сolumns
May 04, 2023
Many state legislators around the country somehow have concluded that cross-dressing is a major issue regarding school governance. But in Pennsylvania...
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Promising bipartisan start in Pa.
Opinion, Сolumns
May 03, 2023
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has done something that seems like a throwback to a quaint time we can barely remember. It did its job. More...
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Recharge EV tax structure
Opinion, Сolumns
May 02, 2023
Perhaps the surest sign that electric vehicles are here to stay is that state legislatures have begun to devise new tax structures to ensure that driv...
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An inconvenient test
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
May 02, 2023
The long era of the dominance of the SAT in college admissions is coming to an end. The test is increasingly being shelved not because it failed but b...
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Pick up phone on debt ceiling
Opinion, Сolumns
May 02, 2023
Barack Obama once said that “elections have consequences.” President Joe Biden would be wise to recognize the wisdom of his old boss’s observation. De...
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Raise wage to livable level
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 30, 2023
A principal feature of congressional Republicans’ deficit policy is a proposal to reduce social safety net costs by requiring work in exchange for ben...
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Brandishing the albatross
Opinion, Сolumns
DR. NICHOLAS l. WADDY 
Apr 30, 2023
In a week of major news stories, perhaps the most consequential development of all got lost in the shuffle. Joe Biden, octogenarian weakling, decided ...
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Less employees increases costs
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 28, 2023
Sometimes having fewer people to do the job might mean more work for the employees but a lower bottom line for the payroll. You have a store to staff,...
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Shapiro’s impressive first 100 days
Opinion, Сolumns
MARK NICASTRE 
Apr 28, 2023
What can you reasonably expect to achieve in 3% of the time you have a job? For reporters and other observers, the 3% milestone is an important inflec...
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Why isn’t Joe Biden a threat to democracy?
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 28, 2023
Joe Biden’s video announcing his reelection bid makes much of his supposed defense of democracy. If it weren’t for that, it strongly implies, he’d be ...
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Dems squelch dissent, opponents
Opinion, Сolumns
JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
Apr 28, 2023
BOSTON (TNS) — The Democratic Party is showing itself to be anything but democratic. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gloats about “deplatforming” h...
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Support Pa. Youth Service Corps
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 27, 2023
Legislation proposed by two House Democrats would create a Pennsylvania Youth Service Corps, providing jobs to clean up the environment and undertake ...
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Learning from rocket’s ruin
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 24, 2023
Space travel isn’t for the faint of heart. Even test flights without humans on board can be nerve-racking events. And so it was Thursday, when a Space...
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