In the early Obama years, I covered Tea Party rallies for my newspaper at the time, the Tribune-Review. The rallies at an abandoned air strip in Westmoreland County were a brew of the utterly mundane and the entirely outrageous.The featured speakers, like former Pennsylvania senator Rich ...
Susan B. Anthony once said, 鈥淪omeone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.鈥滱nthony fought for the right of women to vote in the 19th century, and didn鈥檛 live long enough to see that right guaranteed across the United States in 1920. The expansion of voting rights across two-and-a-half ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> The recent passage of a bill aimed at protecting those who drive on the Pennsylvania Turnpike should bring drivers a bit of relief. Passed by the state House and state Senate, the bill forces the state鈥檚 Turnpike Commission to notify ...
Russia has many reasons to regret its savage war on Ukraine, but a very lasting one will be how it supercharged Europe鈥檚 plans to end its dependence on that country鈥檚 oil and gas. Europe was already well into a campaign to replace fossil fuels with clean renewable energy, mainly to slow ...
How social is social media?Elon Musk, Twitter鈥檚 new owner, gives a clear answer to that question. Musk made the platform 鈥� a public square 鈥� his own boiling cauldron of hate just in time for Halloween.Double blows to American democracy occurred overnight, within hours of each other. It ...
Vladimir Putin is a murderer and tyrant. He鈥檚 also a hypocrite.鈥淚t is no coincidence that the West claims that it is its culture and worldview that should be universal,鈥� Putin explained last week at a pro-Putin Moscow think tank, the Valdai Discussion Club. His remarks echoed previous ...
