Deconstructing the latest Epstein mania
Opinion, Politics
March 12, 2026
Recently, the usual suspects became very excited by what they viewed as an explosive revelation in the Jeffrey Epstein case. The Justice Department, they alleged, had suppressed an account of a woman ...
Total war emerges from the fog
Opinion, Politics
March 11, 2026
is the moment This when total war meets the fog of war. Not in tiny steps but in one great leap, the United States has triggered, and itself soon will experience, a frightful period of total war that ...
Opinion
March 11, 2026
WESTMORELAND COUNTY has an overtime problem. TribLive reporting shows regular reliance on overtime has pushed some employees’ earnings far beyond their base salaries. In 2025 alone, county workers mad...
Opinion, Politics
March 11, 2026
To the Editor: On Jan. 20, meinfuhrer Trump and his fascist cabinet and corrupt appointees took control of our government. They immediately, upon taking power, spit on our constitution and bill of rig...
Opinion, Politics
March 10, 2026
WHEN WE WATCH WAR unfold on television, there is fear and uncertainty. But there also can be the detachment of distance. It is not a comfort, but it can be insulating to know what is happening is so f...
Opinion, Politics
March 10, 2026
To the Editor: It was a very shameful display the way the Democrats behaved at the recent State of the Union address. From those elected who chose not to be there, to holding up a protest sign, to not...
Trump’s way of war
Opinion, Politics
March 10, 2026
War is the use of arms to settle differences— tribal, political, religious, cultural, and material—between organized groups. It is unchanging. The general laws of armed conflict stays immutable, given...
Opinion
March 9, 2026
THREE THINGS COLLIDED in Pittsburgh last week: hatred, technology and infrastructure. The result was antisemitic threats against Mayor Corey O’Connor broadcast over a public safety radio channel used ...
Trump needs to get ready for the blowback
Opinion, Politics
March 7, 2026
It is a special kind of folly to make longterm predictions amid the fog of war. Nobody knows how Operation Epic Fury will end. But there are already a few things we can celebrate and condemn. On the c...
Hits & Misses
Opinion
March 7, 2026
Weekend checklist: Reset your clocks and change your fire alarm batteries as Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, marking the time when clocks “spring forward.” It will stay lighter for longe...
This is Trump’s war
Opinion, Politics
March 6, 2026
As President Trump continues to bombard Iran, triggering violent reprisals across the Middle East, is he also blasting Republican chances for controlling Congress after this fall’s midterm elections? ...
Opinion, Politics
By By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press 
March 6, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans invoked the war in Iran and the prospect of retaliatory terrorist attacks as they made another unsuccessful effort Thursday to pass a bill funding the Department of Homel...
Opinion
March 6, 2026
THIS WEEKEND, MANY OF US will lose an hour of sleep as clocks will shift ahead. Daylight saving time will begin, delaying the moment day becomes night more than four months after it concluded in Novem...
Trump, forever wars and Iraq syndrome
Opinion, Politics
March 5, 2026
For many years in the 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s, discussions of the use of U.S. military force suffered from an effect known as Vietnam Syndrome. Many Americans simply could not consider any pro...
Opinion
March 4, 2026
A CAPITAL CASE IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY may be delayed because another prosecutor assigned to it is leaving the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office. Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Berosh said...
Opinion, Politics
To the point
March 4, 2026
To the Editor: A filter is defined as a material that allows certain substances to pass while keeping other substances out. In referring to a filter as a mechanism used by an individual as one conveys...
An enduring light
Opinion
March 4, 2026
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. — “No star fades faster than that of a high-school athlete,” the author John Grisham wrote in his 2006 book “The Innocent Man.” Today’s column is about a high school athlete whose st...
Opinion
March 3, 2026
SPIRIT AIRLINES HAS BEEN experiencing turbulence. In November 2024, the budget carrier filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Ten months later, the company filed again. This week, Spirit’s parent company — ...