Donald Trump has long exploited nativist resentment of undocumented migrants. Slogans like “Build the Wall” and “Send Them Back” helped him win two elections and remain among his most popular position...

If you’ve ever seen the clearest and bluest of the Atlantic in the Caribbean, you have a sense of what the weather has been like in Washington, D.C., in recent days. I haven’t been here in a while, bu...

WE ARE IN THE MIDST of graduation party season as high school seniors from across the Valley have received their diplomas and are ready to start the next chapter in their lives. The parties that follo...

UNRULY BEHAVIOR FROM YOUNG PEOPLE at theme parks across the country has sparked many to institute a chaperone policy, just in time for the summer tourism season. Kennywood in West Mifflin is the lates...

Lately, there have been news stories expressing alarm about the rapid progress the Trump administration is making building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Whatever the stories are nominally about...

THIS WEEK HAS BEEN DIFFICULT, to say the least, for our neighbors impacted by Saturday’s severe thunderstorms and the six tornadoes that violently tore through the region. It will likely take weeks — ...

There’s an old story about a dog-food manufacturer who created a new canine concoction with the best ingredients and infused with the finest nutrients. It was launched into the market with great fanfa...

To the Editor: On May 5, the President of the United States D.J.T. held an event in the Oval Office for the revival of the presidential physical fitness program. In attendance were members of Trump’s ...

WE HAVE SOME BAD NEWS for anyone still intent on sitting out the AI revolution: You’re too late. If you’re like most Americans today, you already rely on artificial intelligence for myriad activities ...

The Trump administration has bent over backward to negotiate an end to Iran’s grand plans to develop nuclear weapons—before the June 2025 bombing, afterward, and again during the follow-up diplomacy o...

THE EASIEST MATH IS A TALLY — the simple accountability of adding up like things. That is what makes baseball standings and bank accounts work. We can look at the numbers and see who has the most. Add...

THE D-DAY GENERATION, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 82 years ago today. World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, have returned wi...

Normally, I worry that events may overtake a column. But not so with the Iran war. I don’t worry about running afoul of a headline or Truth Social post from the president because what is said about th...

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN the phone was a device that only lived in specific spots. It was attached to the wall of your kitchen, or it sat on the corner of your desk. Glass phone booths stood on street co...

To the Editor: Most of the mess about immigration was created by the Republicans and Trump. Immigration is complicated. Everyone knows it will be fixed only when Congress sits down and drafts new laws...

In 279 B.C., King Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated a Roman legion at the Battle of Asculum. But that conflict cost so many casualties that his forces were left weak and vulnerable, leading the monarch to la...

There’s a fury on the right about the Trump administration’s refusal to roll back Biden-era mail-order abortion-pill dispensing. The Biden change was supposed to be a COVID thing. Anyone who has ever ...

EVERYONE NEEDS A BREAK. You need to get some water. You need a little snack. You just need to not stare at your computer for a few minutes. If you sit at a desk all day, you want to get up and move ar...

Can Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, survive his sexting scandal? The first thing to know is how little we know about it. We know from a Wall Street Journal account that Platn...

BUILDINGS DON’T JUST CHANGE hands. They change uses. Over time, a structure might start as a church, become a school, transition to a restaurant, and end up as a bed and breakfast. This isn’t a bad th...