If you think it was stressful waiting for election boards around the country to count the millions of votes in the presidential election, imagine being the workers […]
Guest Editorials
Vaccine news brings hope
Finally … some much-needed good news in the battle against the coronavirus. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. announced Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine showed an astounding 90% effectiveness […]
Blame Republicans for delayed results in Keystone State
We’ve been hearing for months that whoever wins Pennsylvania would win the White House. We also knew that due to the pandemic and unprecedented turnout, counties would […]
Dear Supreme Court: Let the people vote
At a time when its legitimacy as an apolitical institution is being questioned, the Supreme Court has been dragged into partisan disputes about when and how […]
A time to bid for healthier families
The 2016 presidential campaign was the first in which Republican candidates, including Donald J. Trump, called for paid family leave. The GOP’s embrace of this idea is […]
Trump’s arrogance now imperils some of his decisions
Since he took office nearly four years ago, President Donald Trump has routinely flouted the Constitution’s requirement that top political appointees be confirmed with the “advice and […]
Settlement doesn’t make up for harm Purdue has caused
The prescription opioid crisis that has taken well over 100,000 American lives and ruined hundreds of thousands more wasn’t just an accident of time or the byproduct […]
A national census without partisan manipulation?
Our nation’s Founding Fathers instituted the national census as a count of all people, an enumeration that is the basis of federal funding, the distribution of political […]
Counting us out? A bad Supreme Court census ruling
After Tuesday’s daylong Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court came a one-paragraph, unsigned opinion from her […]
Trump encouraging Election Day mayhem
With less than a month remaining in the campaign, the country faces the specter of a chaotic Election Day. President Trump has urged his supporters to “go […]