political science

It is somewhat bewildering to watch the Republican Party morph into an economically left-wing party without anyone really caring. But that’s what is c...

It appears that good news keeps coming for Pennsylvania’s Republicans. Recently released data reveal a subtle but significant trend: Republicans are e...

This April marks the 250th anniversary of the famous shots fired at Concord, Massachusetts, that set off the American Revolution. Capt. Levi Preston, ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to implement term limits in Con...

When the county is in turmoil and awash in frustration, suspicion and anger it may help to think about basic principles — to think about those ideas t...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — I've been reading as much as I can onUkrainepresident Volodomyr Zelenskyy'sOval Officeencounter with American presidentDonald Trump...

What lies ahead now that Americans have just witnessed one of the most dramatic trade gambits seen at the beginning of a presidential term? By most ac...

An authoritarian coup is happening in the United States. And “we the people” are the only ones who can stop it. We must preserve and restore our democ...

For the first time in party history, the Green Party of Pennsylvania is recruiting leadership from unorganized counties and two Bradford residents hav...

Faculty from two Pennsylvania universities participated in a survey on the state of free speech and self-censorship. The results reveal growing concer...

CIVICS: We’ve featured some of this before, but we saw The Washington Post had run a story asking if readers knew more civics than an eighth grader. S...

Pennsylvania's campaign finance reporting system is easily gamed by unscrupulous politicians, especially in the final days before an election. State l...

One thing that shocked me about this year’s presidential election campaign was how many of my fellow Republicans and conservatives expected to lose, b...

Elon Musk has wasted little time laying the groundwork for his job in the next Trump administration, overseeing the new Department of Government Effic...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — After Nov. 5, there is no going back. Any attempt to recreate the political norms and coalitions of the pre-Trump era will fail. It...

The Republican victories were resounding and unmistakable — so decisive that Donald Trump’s win was projected in less than 12 hours after the polls cl...

Donald Trump is staging photo ops in which he serves Big Macs to steelworkers while Kamala Harris is hanging out with NeverTrump neoconservative Liz C...

(Editor’s note: This commentary by the late George P. Evans of Bradford originally appeared in The Era on Nov. 11, 2020. His family requested that the...

Well, he went and did it. By holding that Nazi mockup rally at Madison Square Garden Sunday, replete with his Proud Boys-inspired “uniform” and his vu...

Our calendars are full of useless holidays. Just last week, we saw Credit Union Day, Mashed Potato Day and Raw Milk Cheese Appreciation Day. While obs...