It was heartening to see the high school graduates pictured in the June 9 Gazette, thinking of all the promise they hold for themselves, and for us, in their futures. It also caused me to refl…
Meta Platforms, until October 2021 known as Facebook, is in turmoil. Infamous for its commitment to employing H-1B workers, and simultaneously undermining qualified U.S. tech workers’ careers,…
I watched one of my favorite movies the other night, “Quo Vadis.”
Americans are so angry about so many things — with partisan politics topping the list.
Last week’s televised hearings addressing the violence that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were nothing short of riveting and disturbing.
Matthew McConaughey was the star of this week’s gun drama in Washington.
Matthew McConaughey was the star of this week’s gun drama in Washington.
When the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning the constitutional right to an abortion was leaked to the media last month, it tore through Washington, D.C. with the force of a category five …
An interesting aspect of advocating for home care in Pennsylvania is that everyone agrees with you. Legislators and the administration unanimously agree that individuals strongly prefer receiv…
It’s blasphemy in certain circles to state the obvious, which is that America is not exceptional in every way and that Americans are not the peerless masters of the universe. Heck, I’ll even d…
I’ve been in favor of the death penalty since I first knew what it was. I suppose it has something to do with my sense of justice: if you take a life, which is really the only time the death p…
In the wake of every mass killing in this country, politicians do what politicians do, which is to circle their respective wagons and offer solutions that fail to get to the heart of the issue.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a Pennsylvania Democrat who didn’t think Lt. Gov. John Fetterman was going to win his primary for U.S. Senate.
Appropriating Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 2022 will likely be a month which will live in infamy. Nearly a week later, the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School school in Uvalde, Texas still…
Why do they have to die?
We’re living in gray times, bobbing in a sea of information where there is no longer much black or white. We have access to more content than ever — plus raging uncertainty about how much is f…
The writer Alan Furst has shrewdly observed, “Fascism famously stomps around in jackboots, but it sometimes wears carpet slippers, padding about softly on the edges of one’s life, and in a way…
Prom season is upon us.
Even if you’ve only been casually following the fiery debate over abortion rights in the days since a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion eviscerating Roe v. Wade became public, you are li…
Cats are said to have nine lives. Rasputin was said to have almost as many. If only the MeToo movement had the same brief lifespan.
If it isn’t one thing, it’s another.
“You wanna borrow, you gotta pay the man.” Rocky Balboa was right.
As we enter our third summer of Covid-19, most epidemiologists agree we’re in pretty good shape, with some 90% of our population vaccinated, having had Covid or both. Masks, vaccinations and s…
President Biden and those around him have a fondness for using historical disasters as points of comparisons to raise the level of outrage over outbreaks of violence and unrest that have plagu…
Millions of young women dream of being honored on Mother’s Day.
