Much of the public’s attention to the Trump tariff situation focuses on 1) each person’s individual loss, or possible loss, in the stock market and 2) whether tariffs will result in inflation going fo...

To the Editor: Why doesn’t the left deal with facts, instead of spewing out DNC talking points? While reading some of these “Letters to the Editor,” I wonder why they want this country and Trump to fa...

1. President Donald Trump’s so-called “trade war.” Many call the American effort to obtain either tariff parity or a reduction in the roughly $1 trillion trade deficit and 50 years of consecutive trad...

Pope Francis making snow angels. That image adorned the cover of an issue of The New Yorker in December 2013. I have a coffee mug I picked up in Rome early on in his pontificate depicting him as a sup...

ACCORDING TO PENNSYLVANIA LAW, your land is not your possession and affords no expectation of privacy. That was the argument Deputy Attorney General Anthony Kovalchick made to the Pennsylvania Supreme...

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT is representative. We pull from our neighbors to find the people who should lead us. But we don’t put those people in place forever. Or at least, we don’t plan on it. Frequently, h...

It’s the middle of April in twenty-five, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem that once was memorized by generations of American...

At sundown, the first night of Passover begins. This major Jewish holiday celebrates the most momentous event in Jewish history — the liberation of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. But, for th...

John Maynard Keynes famously said, “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” The point being that, even if you’re right about where the stock market is bound to go eventually...

To the Editor: Politics has always been “the art of compromise.” And compromise requires differing parties to debate and discuss openly their positions and be willing to listen to each other in order ...

TODAY MARKS THE END of an era and the close of a major chapter in Charleroi’s history as the Corelle Brands Inc. factory will stop producing glassware after 132 years. After the last employees leave t...

Why did so many fans watch the final episode of “The White Lotus”? Suspense. The first episode of Season 3 had teased a murder, and viewers wanted to know the victim. Uncertainty is the oldest trope i...

To the Editor: Dumb 1: Those who voted for Trump were lied to. He betrayed those voters. He said he was going to make America great again, to lower prices, to get the economy in better shape, but what...

By DIDI TANG AND ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The tariff fight between the world’s two largest economies spiraled into greater peril Wednesday as President Donald Trump tried to narr...

To the Editor: I live in New Eagle, about 30 minutes outside Pittsburgh with a population of just over 2,000 people. We go out to farmers markets in South Park and Finleyville, where I can get produce...

THE U.S. STEEL ROLLER COASTER is continuing its wild ride. On Monday, the White House put out a memo that reset the clock on the question of selling the American steel manufacturer to Japanese giant N...

To the Editor: Ever since World War II and the Marshall Plan, our country has helped other countries rebuild after the war and given many other countries preferred access to our markets so they could ...

TRANSPARENCY IS IMPORTANT for more than just keeping government accountable. We tend to think about transparency as finding out what someone did wrong. Want to make sure this government department did...

SEBASTIAN, Fla. -- Was Florida whispering? Was Wisconsin shouting? Suddenly these two questions, rooted in states that Donald Trump carried only five months ago, are at the forefront of American polit...

BASEBALL IS A GAME of numbers. Sure, every sport can claim that to some extent. A scoreboard is all about the numbers, after all. A tie is never broken by an essay question. But baseball may be the pe...