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The case for unions in 2025

Michael Podhorzer wants you to know that living in a state that values unions is healthier than living in one that doesn't. Writing at Weekend Read in April, Podhorzer said that "those living in states with so-called right-to-work laws, which makes it nearly impossible to organize ...

AI use questioned in, outside of classroom

Last week鈥檚 column on artificial intelligence drew a lot of interest. Here are two responses. Q. As a teacher for over 30 years,10 at the college level, I struggle to find any glimmer of positive in the AI craze. I repeatedly told my students in the last years to write their own papers; when ...

Time personalities

My high school band director (who quit and became a priest) had just been discharged from the Army. He lived by the motto: 鈥淚f you aren鈥檛 at least 15 minutes early, you are late.鈥 I can remember him standing at the door, and if you arrived late, you got paddled. Up until the mid-70鈥檚, ...

Democrats are losing ground big time

In a span of four years - from 2020 to 2024 - Democrats lost 2.1 million registered voters in the 30 states where registration by party takes place. This includes Pennsylvania. In the six years from 2018 to 2024, the Republican percentage of new voters rose by 9% while Democrats fell 8%, a ...

Using AI in the classroom

Q. I start high school soon. In my freshman orientation packet there was a note saying AI is not permitted. I get that they don鈥檛 want us to write our papers using AI, but isn鈥檛 AI what you use when you search online? Do you think they鈥檙e saying we can鈥檛 do that? That鈥檚 unrealistic. ...

The ego in chief steals the show, again

Among other things that he alone decides, President Trump this past week pondered who might be honored by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Kennedy Center Honors is an extravaganza of the first magnitude, in addition to being a sumptuous trove of television images and ...