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...

To the Editor: Everyone has heard the often quoted idiom “crazy like a fox.” Quite applicable to our President Donald J. Trump. Each day fewer and fewer Americans would label him as “stable.” “Crazy” ...

Reports about a U.S.Iran peace deal have been served up in recent days as a tasting menu. Instead, it increasingly seems like a palate cleanser. Donald Trump suggested a deal was impending. Iran said ...

LITTLE KIDS WALK THROUGH THE DOORS clinging to a parent’s hand, not sure how to navigate this strange new world of letters and numbers. By the time they walk out for the last time, they have made frie...

Since Oct. 7, we have been lectured nonstop about the supposedly singular sins of Israel. The campuses, the left-wing media, and the new Democratic Socialist officials, both federal and state, followi...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE seems to have found its way into almost everything. Schools are trying to balance using it in some areas while weeding it out in others. Some universities are returning to hand...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democratic leaders in a handful of southern states are lobbying for South Carolina to reprise its role as the party’s first-in-thenation state to cast primary ballots in 2028, ar...

There’s an ancient, almost surely apocryphal, story about a dog food company executive convening a big sales meeting. A very short version has the exec running through all of the company’s advantages:...

We started this week off with solemn celebrations remembering the commitment and sacrifice of fallen soldiers. Memorial Day was commemorated with several parades, with services and with a blizzard of ...

As the Watergate scandal was unraveling, President Richard Nixon declared, “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” Nixon was correct: People have a ...

Conservative civil rights leader Robert L. Woodson Sr. died in his sleep at 89 on May 19. He wrote “The Triumphs of Joseph: How Today’s Community Healers Are Reviving Our Streets and Neighborhoods,” p...

FOR YEARS, PENNSYLVANIANS have been making the argument to Harrisburg that the state needs a gift ban. It needs a firm, unimpeachable prohibition against anyone who wants something wrapping it up in p...

ELECTIONS DETERMINE WHO OCCUPIES an office. Leadership depends on something more fragile: the confidence of colleagues. Holding office and holding leadership are not the same thing. That distinction b...

Paul Rivera, a little- known former Clinton White House aide and senior adviser to the losing 2004 John Kerry presidential campaign, became famous recently as the author of the Democratic National Com...

EACH YEAR, THE SEASON OF CAPS AND GOWNS arrives with predictable joy, tears and a sense of achievement. For high school seniors, graduation marks a long-awaited milestone. It is the moment when they c...

Yes, as many of us have wondered, there actually may be something in the water on the American campaign trail or in the White House. It turns out it is a form of sodium thiopental, known to moviegoers...

ALL TOO OFTEN, AN UNEXPECTED new addition to a community becomes controversial only after it’s too late to do anything about it. By the time residents are packing hearing rooms and officials are scram...

To the Editor: The editorial “Do Wecht, Fetterman, Catena point to changing Democratic party?” (MVI, 5-20-26) might be the worst ever published by your newspaper. As the country gears up for a wholesa...

American view One of China—now increasingly popular on the Left and the Right alike, especially among the hate-Trump crowd—is that the communist colossus will be forever ascendant, with continued asto...

In 1788, Virginia convened a convention to debate ratification of the new U.S. Constitution, promulgated in Philadelphia the year before. The pardon power proved to be a sticking point for some delega...