The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By QUINN YEARGAIN Associate Professor of Law, Michigan State University Beyond picking g...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By MARK V. BARROW JR. Professor of History, Virginia Tech The migrant detention center k...

IT BECAME FASHIONABLE a few years ago for people to blame “misinformation” for others holding views they find wrongheaded. Social media platforms, sometimes jawboned by the federal government, invoked...

GILFORD, N.H. — Taped on the refrigerator are four pictures of the bear that recently wandered behind Robby Cosgriff’s house. On the opposite wall is a plea for contributions of arts and crafts suppli...

By The Associated Press President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month’s NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on an alternate military aircraft while the White House made it appear that the Republic...

It is not difficult, these days, to see the neo-communist flipside of “Democratic Socialists”—once they find power. Indeed, the more the ossified Democratic Party claims that its growing cadre of soci...

TODAY, FLAGS WILL BE LOWERED to half-staff across the U.S. Steel Mon Valley Works’ three local plants, and employees will pause for a moment of silence to mark one year since an explosion at the Clair...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By NICHOLAS JACOBS GOLDFARB Family Distinguished Chair in American Government, Colby Col...

ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL is set to implement a new policy about letting people know when something bad happens. This isn’t about telling the press. It’s not about telling the public. It’s a family notifi...

In January, the New York Times asked President Donald Trump if there were any limits on his global powers. “Yeah,” the president responded, “there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the ...

Congratulations to the Rostraver Township police, the City of McKeesport and its police department, as well as Port Vue council and police officers and many other communities that hosted successful ev...

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER AND BILL BARROW Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy said Friday he will back Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general, likely paving the way fo...

RAPE CRISIS CENTERS IN PENNSYLVANIA will see state funding double under the budget signed last month. These agencies provide services to victims of sexual assault. Pittsburgh Action Against Rape was o...

To the Editor: Trump wants to scare us with the dangers of communism. It reminds me of the remark once made by his fellow tax dodger and billionaire, Leona Helmsley: “I wouldn’t believe Trump if his t...

The Reflecting Pool opened on the National Mall in 1922, linking the monuments that honor Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. The pool serves as “an optical instrument,” writes one commentator, a m...

“He chose not to run,” Michael Marlowe recalled of his son. Jake Marlowe was murdered at the now infamous Nova music festival in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. He had been working as a security guard there a...

By JEFF KOTULA Many industries in our nation have a Mon Valley heritage. Steel, coal, and glass production in the United States can all trace their origins back to our region. These companies had the ...

COURT CAN SEEM VERY BLACK AND WHITE, something probably reinforced by the black robes judges wear and the reams of white paper filled with filings and judgments. What’s missed is the volume of gray. S...

odds are Republicans The will lose control of the House in the coming midterms — for five reasons: 1. their current majority is so narrow that losing a literal handful of seats would cost them control...

ANY TIME A BUSINESS OR ORGANIZATION expands its operations by hiring more staff or building a larger space, it’s a positive step forward for the community. Centerville Clinics did just that Monday whe...