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...

MEMORIAL DAY has evolved to a time when people place flowers on the graves of loved ones, but the original intent was to honor military service personnel who have lost their lives in service to Americ...

GOVERNMENT RESPONDS TO THE threats that are expected. In California, that means building codes anticipate earthquakes. In Florida, emergency management plans for hurricanes. And now, Pennsylvania must...

It was 1959, and I was a senior in high school, hanging out at the Jewish Community Center in my hometown of Bayonne, New Jersey, when I ran into the older brother of a girl I knew. His name was Barne...

You can order abortion pills by mail. That reality should be enough to give us all pause, whatever one’s moral position on abortion. You can be in Texas, where abortion is technically illegal, and get...

IF YOU DON’T VOTE, YOU CAN’T COMPLAIN. We’ve all heard this saying before, but never has it rung so true than for Tuesday’s primary election. Despite beginning the process to elect our statewide leade...

For the first time this term, President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has dipped below 40% in the Real-ClearPolitics average of polls. The newest rating is 39.9% approval and 57% disapproval. The...

PARSONS, West Virginia — Under a canopy of red and sugar maple, yellow poplar and sweet birch trees sits a colorful vernal riot of wildflowers like Canada violet, phlox and Solomon’s seal — and a case...

IN 2025, AS PENNSYLVANIA’S most contentious judicial retention campaign ever burned across the state, Pittsburgh native David N. Wecht was one of three Supreme Court justices fighting to remain on the...

TODAY, DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS across Pennsylvania will decide which candidates from their respective parties will go on to run in the November general election. On the ballot are the governor and l...