opinion

WASHINGTON — It must be obvious by now that we are experiencing something greater than the routine frustrations of the business cycle and the normal p...

WASHINGTON — By now, most Americans probably have formed an opinion about what comedian Bill Cosby did or didn’t do sexually to or with at least 16 wo...

It’s the time of year when Americans are asked to pause and remember those things in life for which we are thankful. Our troops and our veterans, our ...

WASHINGTON — The grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of teenager Michael Brown was the wor...

WASHINGTON — Here’s a paradox worth pondering: Could President Obama’s executive actions on immigration actually make it easier to enact comprehensive...

For the first time since high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as nonconventional fracking, was developed, more Americans oppose...

SAN DIEGO — The politically correct should spend less time telling people what to think, and more time forcing themselves to think. Case in point: Imm...

WASHINGTON — Seen through the prism of subsequent national experience, Nelson Rockefeller resembles a swollen post-war automobile — a land yacht with ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — No one at the state Capitol has advocated pay raises for hundreds of Pennsylvania’s top elected and appointed officials since the 20...

WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren was doing Tuesday what Elizabeth Warren usually does: sticking up for the little guy. The populist Democratic senator fr...

WASHINGTON — Every Democrat should be nervous about President Obama’s plan for unilateral action on immigration reform. Not because of the impact on a...

WASHINGTON — There are any number of marvelous things one might do as president, if Congress were not such a checked and balanced mess. But future pre...

MILWAUKEE — It is as remarkable as it is repulsive, the ingenuity with which the Obama administration uses the regulatory state’s intricacies to advan...

Residents of the Twin Tiers have plenty of experience with rough winter weather, but even the hardiest here have to be grateful we have not been smoth...

WASHINGTON — News that Pope Francis will visit the U.S. next year for the triennial World Meeting of Families brings elation to Catholics, excitement ...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve has ended its roughly $3.7 trillion program of bond buying, leaving in its wake a host of hard questions. Did it stre...

WASHINGTON — Reginald Latson’s path to solitary confinement began four years ago as he waited for the public library to open in Stafford County, Va. L...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The Pennsylvania Legislature will be led by massive Republican majorities — including the biggest House GOP majority in more than 50...

WASHINGTON — Western reflection about human nature and the politics of the human condition began with the sunburst of ancient Greece 2,500 years ago, ...

WASHINGTON — Without QE, will the stock market tank? Count me a skeptic. QE refers to “quantitative easing,” the Federal Reserve’s multitrillion-dolla...