Is the economy overheating? Are we about to revisit the painful economic conditions of the 1970s and ‘80s, when prices spiraled out of control? Has President Joe Biden irreparably damaged the economy?
Now we are about to test whether one picture is worth a thousand words.
The front page of the May 13 Washington Times was sobering. “President Biden’s second 100 days are off to a woeful start, including a gas shortage for much of the East Coast, a surge of inflation, a slowdown in hiring despite a record number of job openings, renewed fighting in the Middle Ea…
Larry Winans and his business partner developed their homebrewing hobbies into a dream and a vision for a new brewery in Lewisburg. They spent four years carefully planning for its success, over a year awaiting final construction of the building, and countless months hiring and training thei…
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, my fellow Americans. But: Your taxes are already very low.
Joe Biden is the luckiest man to ever assume the presidency.
There’s a word to describe political movements that emphasize ethnic, racial and religious solidarity over citizenship and pluralistic values, but it has unpleasant historical associations. Using it only causes political conversations to end in bitterness and name-calling.
Facebook is like Coca-Cola. Both companies want everyone to use their products; the last thing they want is any turmoil that gives customers a reason to leave the website or switch to Dr Pepper.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden insists that Friday’s disastrous jobs report has nothing to do with Democrats’ extension of federal unemployment benefits. “I know there’s been a lot of discussion ... that people are being paid to stay home, rather than go to work,” he said Monday. “Well, we…
Follow the artists. The brilliant among them usually detect the trends in a society or culture before the rest of us, whether we are politicians, plumbers or college professors. Novelists from Margaret Atwood to Octavia Butler have been writing fictional accounts of the collapse of the Unite…
Recently, former President Donald Trump and people around him have been dropping more and more hints that he will run for president in 2024.
In Harrisburg, policymakers tend to get easily sidetracked to focus on issues demanding immediate attention. This often means the over shadowing of existing priorities.
I always feel sad for people who are uncomfortable around dogs, because they miss out on the laughs, enthusiasm and attachment of unconditional love. But one of nature’s cruel tricks is “dog years,” a concept familiar to everyone who has welcomed fur babies into their families. The age of yo…
Vaccines are rolling out and hope is in the air, but the lasting impacts of the pandemic are still very real for many Pennsylvanians.
The debate over term limits is nothing new.
President Joseph Biden mentions his Catholic faith frequently. We’ve heard him cite both Pope and Saint Francis. At his inauguration, he ran through a litany of promises about love, healing and decency, and other things no one could object to, prefaced by: “Before God and all of you I give y…
No two ways about it: The April jobs report was extremely disappointing. And it’s likely to heat up the debate, now preoccupying the White House, over whether government policy might be subtly discouraging unemployed people from returning to work.
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are preparing to oust Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., from the No. 3 Republican position in the House and replace her with Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. Why? Is Stefanik more conservative than Cheney? No, Cheney has an 80% lifetime rating with Heritage Action for Americ…
National EMS Week
Philadelphia's racist past resurfaced in recent weeks, with the public disclosure that the bones of one or two African American children killed by the city's police in 1985 were being used in an online Princeton University course, "Real Bones: Adventures in Forensic Anthropology," without th…
Joe Biden, Superstar.
Facebook’s tyrannical blacklisting of former President Donald Trump, an elected politician 74 million Americans voted for, is wholly un-American and must be stopped before our nation veers off the cliff and permanently loses precious liberties our brave veterans and troops have lost life and…
The U.S. economy needs more kids.
It was just like one of those inspiring Tyler Perry movie scenes when a believer does the right thing and helps a struggler have a come-to-Jesus epiphany.
In the nine elections between 1980 and 2012, candidates with one of three names — Bush, Cheney and Romney — appeared on the GOP’s national ticket nine times. Yet today, those names are all reviled by a party dominated by one man: Donald J. Trump.
ANSWER: “Sen. Tim Scott, Republican from South Carolina.”
As a rule, I read few biographies, and certainly not of authors, people whose most significant life events are spent alone. In my case, Churchill, Swift and Dostoyevsky are the exceptions that prove the rule: world historical figures who can’t be understood outside the context of their times.
As I visit our hospital campuses and speak with our health care workers, I’m so proud — and frankly, a little astounded — to see how dedicated Geisinger employees are to caring for their neighbors. These are the people still battling the COVID-19 pandemic while also providing the chronic and…
Does President Joe Biden have a mandate to rebuild the United States? To remake American capitalism? To reshape the role of government? The president’s Democratic supporters say yes. But the results of the election that brought Biden to office say no.
WASHINGTON — News that former secretary of state John Kerry may have shared classified intelligence with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif about Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in Syria has elicited yawns from the media and among congressional Democrats. The revelation (which Kerry den…
WASHINGTON — In the summer of 1980, Antony Blinken, then 18 and about to matriculate at Harvard, interned for the U.S. senator who brought to Congress the most mental bandwidth since Rep. James Madison. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., an empiricist in an arena — government — that often…
It has been two weeks since the conviction of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin for the second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter of George Floyd.
As we begin National Nurses’ Week and prepare for National Hospital Week, it’s important to take this opportunity to pause and recognize the work healthcare workers here in the Central Susquehanna Valley have done over the past tumultuous year.
Successive grand jury investigations dating back to the early 2000s exposed the scale of child sexual abuse and cover-up in Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic Church. The most recent panel of jurors pored over the evidence, then outlined searing findings in a 2018 report: More than 300 priests an…
It’s one thing to hear Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., call President Joe Biden divisive, to hear him say that Biden and his Democratic allies are “pulling us further apart.” Given the harsh and hateful rhetoric of Biden’s predecessor, Scott’s description might be considered deep irony.
“America is not a racist country.” That was Sen. Tim Scott giving the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress, calling on the nation to “root out systemic racism that plagues America.”
Here’s hoping most people out there feel as I do about the state of national politics in America — frustrated, disturbed and downright angry.
WASHINGTON — Maybe “unity” doesn’t mean that Republicans and Democratic politicians agree on everything.
As vaccinations against COVID-19 increase and with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recently released relaxed outdoor masking standards for vaccinated people, the U.S. appears to be inching toward normalcy. Meanwhile, many state legislatures across the country are working to …
COLUMBUS, OHIO — On the Feast of St. Catherine of Siena, the 14th-century saint, I was surrounded by Dominican friars, priests who have dedicated their lives to God. Remembering her, we sang: “No earthy pleasure, bodily adornment, nor fleshly beauty, satisfied your longing; every enticement …
When training pastors and chaplains, educators frequently stress the need for boundaries between work and home.
In an exclusive interview with ranking member of the judiciary committee, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Thursday morning, he gave his reaction to the president’s address before Congress the night before, President Biden’s first 100 days in office and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s inconsistent mask guida…
WASHINGTON — On Wednesday night, Joe Biden delivered both the most expensive, and least attended, presidential address to a joint session of Congress in modern American history. There is a reason for both milestones: His speech was pandemic political theater designed to justify a miasma of g…
In his appearance before a joint session of Congress Wednesday night, President Biden sought to answer Americans’ questions about what direction he intends to steer the country. But Mr. Biden’s speech, less a State of the Union Address than a statement about what kind of union he envisions, …
Cable news programming suggestion: Instead of filling every broadcast with the latest presumptive police outrage, try covering the latest drive-by killings. Show us more of what’s really happening on the streets where we live. Newspapers and local TV are already on it.
Republican lawmakers want you to believe they’ve made a serious counteroffer to President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure investment proposal. They want you to think their plan is not only commensurate with the country’s “real” infrastructure needs but also a reasonable compromise …
To use the cliche of the moment, these are deeply polarized times. But there are some issues so urgent that we must find common ground. At the top of that list is preventing police-citizen interactions from resulting in the deaths of either innocent civilians or dedicated police officers.
Michael Wood will tell us something about today’s Republican Party.
Last week, ex-police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The evidence on the murder charges was weak; the evidence on manslaughter was significantly stronger. Still, the jury took only 10 hours and zero questions to…
On June 14, 2017, a team of Republican lawmakers went to an athletic field in Alexandria, Virginia, to practice for the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. As they worked out, a man armed with a semiautomatic rifle and pistol approached and opened fire. Rep. Steve Scalise, the Ho…
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