What is going on with MU? As a Mansfield professor, it is a question that I get asked frequently from folks in the community, and my short answer is that our university is evolving.
A constant in the political universe is the quest to occupy the moral high ground, that space that sets apart those with noble intentions and pure motives from those driven by craven desires i…
Moments after he became Pennsylvania’s 48th chief executive, Gov. Josh Shapiro delivered a message to state residents who voted for the competition last November.
Serious policymakers who want to bring business as usual in Washington to an end would do well to explore the connections between trial lawyers, so-called science and safety groups, and the pr…
Questions school decision
Don’t worry, America.
The drama surrounding Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s speakership bid remains nothing short of surreal.
Before Republicans elected Kevin McCarthy Speaker of the House, a handful of his colleagues demanded the implementation of a fiscal framework to rein in federal spending.
Truck noise is disturbing
When you have the beginning of a cold, nothing sparkly to wear and you really hate New Year’s, you watch television. If a certain station has the good sense to runs a marathon of vintage Twili…
It’s been a political clown show.
It’s not often that you get the chance to point to Pennsylvania as a case study in comity and consensus building. But with the U.S. House seemingly in permanent residence in Dante’s fifth circ…
As a child, lying was something I rarely did. This was a function of two things: being Catholic and being lazy.
Decades ago, Holocaust scholar Hannah Arendt warned: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between f…
“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” Quoted from Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” many are acquainted with these words;…
In recent weeks, we’ve noticed more than the usual number of comments in regards to the editorial/opinion page. Not surprisingly, most of those comments veer toward the negative. We are accuse…
Appreciated Column
We don’t fight our wars to win anymore. We fight them to get to a stalemate.
There’s a school of political thought that divided government is the government that governs best. Put the White House in the hands of one party, and Congress in the hands of the other, the ar…
As I watched President Biden sign the historic marriage equality law, I couldn’t help but marvel at how much American culture has changed during the past quarter century.
I turned 61 last week.
It sure didn’t take long for right-wing media figures to criticize the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner.
Bible addresses sexuality
What if Jesus had decided to come to earth in 2000 instead of the year zero? He’d be 22, going on 23.
On Nov. 15, former president Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. Less than three weeks later, he ended it.
