HURRICANE HELENE likely caused more than $30 billion worth of damage. Less than two weeks later, Hurricane Milton inflicted almost $50 billion more. With six weeks left in this hurricane season, the S...

It’s hard to measure the intensity of negative media coverage of former President Donald Trump, but it’s safe to say it is rising as Election Day approaches. What’s interesting to note is that in the ...

IN 1861, PENNSYLVANIA took steps to protect its citizens from potential fraud. It outlawed fortune telling. Whether you were prognosticating with tarot cards or crystal balls or any of the popular mea...

The election is finally shaping up to be not only liberal Democrat Kamala Harris versus conservative Republican Donald Trump. Instead, it has become a larger contest between those who talk down to the...

This can be a miserable time, the run-up to a presidential election. I have a few consolations, though, when politics is driving me crazier than usual. One is the Al Smith Dinner, which raises money f...

DISCUSSION AND DEBATE has always been a part of small-town America. From coffee shops to the local bars and restaurants, small-town folks aren’t afraid to show their loyalty for one candidate or anoth...

FEASTERVILLE-TREVOSE, Pa. (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump manned the fry station at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania on Sunday before staging an impromptu news conference, answering qu...

ELECTION INTEGRITY IS IMPORTANT. We have to be able to trust that the votes cast in an election represent the will of the people. That means they need to be the votes that belong to a specific area. W...

The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates has gotten far more attention than he deserves for his new book, “The Message,” which contains a blistering condemnation of Israel. The response from Israel’s defenders has...

An American leader denounces new immigrants as “generally the most ignorant Stupid Sort of their own Nation,” and warns: “They will soon so out number us ... (and we) will not in My Opinion be able to...

Chances are quite good that yet another major hurricane will come ashore in the United States sometime before the 2024 presidential election is decided, and that it will afflict mainly Republican area...

RUMORS CAN BE HILARIOUS. They are what sell supermarket tabloids. They make gossiping with friends entertaining. They are the little whispered snips that make a great story. The problem is that rumors...

IT USED TO BE COMMON to see “Let’s Make a Deal” contestants leave the TV game show smiling after winning $100 for every coin they could pull out of their purse or pocket. But as America moves ever clo...

When MSNBC signed off at 3 a.m. the first night of the Republican National Convention, they were still talking about Melania’s speech. For five solid hours, MSNBC had been obsessing over two paragraph...

DID YOU TURN on the heat yet? It’s a touchy topic in some households as October settles into its annual indecision. Sixteen days in, the month has had highs in the 80s and lows in the 30s. It creates ...

To the Editor: The recent uproar with the 80-foot high, two-sided sign at the Belle Vernon Area School District transportation building should be applauded. I’m not certain that this next idea would h...

Both the Harris-Walz presidential ticket and now lameduck President Joe Biden keep insisting that they are Israel’s best friend. A snarly Biden recently bragged at a contentious press conference, “No ...

EVERY YEAR, THE NATIONAL Network to End Domestic Violence conducts a survey of those seeking help. It is not a total for the year. It is a snapshot of one day. How many people reached out? How many pe...

IS A PRIVATE FACEBOOK PAGE a public record? It’s a complicated question — so complicated that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is being asked to decide. The line between public and private isn’t as blac...

“Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.” — Jonathan Swift, 1710 I am old enough to remember predictions of the glorious promise of the internet, which optimists declared would usher in...