“ TRUST BUT VERIFY” was President Ronald Reagan’s English translation of a Russian proverb. It urged safety by tempering the instinct to believe what you are told with the caution to check for the tru...

Scott Thomsen is a fourth-generation Nebraska farmer and loyal Republican who supported Donald Trump in all three of his presidential campaigns. But his enthusiasm for the president and his party is f...

“In world of Jolenes, be a Dolly” is a phrase you can buy on a plaque for your wall, a sticker for your water bottle or a mini-sandwich board sign I bought at a Cracker Barrel in Nashville, Tennessee,...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. DAYANAALAGIROVA Georgia Institute of Technology AND KARRYL KIM SAGUN TRAJANO Nanyang Tec...

KNIVES ARE EVERYWHERE and always have been. While the first weapon used by early man might have been the blunt heft of a rock or the reach of a stick, it didn’t take our ancestors long to sharpen them...

Over the last year or so, President Donald Trump has sometimes pointed to Vice President JD Vance as his preference for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination. Sometimes he has spoken favorably o...

To the Editor: A recent Letter to the Editor asked readers to consider the lies that our current president purportedly tells routinely. While I won’t argue whether there have been some “lies” put fort...

AMERICA’S NATIONAL DEBT climbed above $40 trillion for the first time on Aug. 20, an obligation that is impossible to pay off and one that should be dominating the political conversation this season. ...

A CALGARY wildfire is sweeping the western Canadian province of Alberta. It’s not the one you are thinking of. And a Canadian province is considering leaving the country. It also isn’t the one you are...

To the Editor: What would happen if your Social Security check were reduced or disappeared? What if you can never collect the money you paid throughout your lifetime at work? What would you do if Medi...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By MICHAEL HELBING Adjunct Professor of Law, Penn State Governors across the country are...

Every August, debate renews over both the wisdom and the morality of dropping the two American atomic bombs, 81 years ago, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (Aug. 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (Aug. 9, 1945...

ACCORDING TO A RECENT BREAKDOWN from financial tech company SmartAsset, people need a lot more money than they are making to be comfortable. A single Pennsylvanian, for instance, needs about $97,011 t...

ON TUESDAY, GOV. JOSH Shapiro stood at the microphone for a news conference about the growing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania. Two deaths that officials say were related to the infectious disease wer...

Classrooms opened for many this week. But students have already been practicing and preparing for fall sports, including the start of the new football season. Several area teams kicked off Friday nigh...

Don’t look now, but we seem to have a moral panic on our hands. The term moral panic, at least as a social science concept, is relatively modern. It was coined by Stanley Cohen in the 1972 book “Folk ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In a Michigan swing district just north of Detroit, Democratic congressional candidate Christina Hines said voters are far more worried about affording fuel, groceries and healthcare t...

PENN STATE HAS A complicated relationship with fraternities. THON is the largest student-run philanthropy in the world. In 2026, fraternities and sororities led a haul of $18.8 million. Even on the ra...

To the Editor: “A lie travels around the world while truth is putting on his boots.” With the advent of cable news, texting, endless speeches, etc., the administration of our current “chief executive”...

As President Donald Trump escalated his trade war with Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney responded with a direct and damning comment: “We’ve recognized from the start that America has changed,” he sa...