The Democrats’ drift to embrace California-style leftism should worry Pennsylvanians not just for what it has done to the party nationally, but for what it might do right here to our own governor. You don’t need a pencil to connect the dots. When Josh Shapiro caves to his party’s ...
By Nick Jacobs One of my first jobs was in teaching. As a young educator who had grown up in a rural area, the racial prejudice that I saw was shocking. “My students were poor, and they often came to school without breakfast — hungry, and they knew, even in their youth, the pain of ...
Social media is full of baby boomer nostalgia. Many of us born between 1946 and 1964 enjoy trading stories of our youth. We fondly recall how we spent our time without modern conveniences. We love to post blurry photographs of our school days and of businesses that no longer exist. As ...
Recently, something both distressed and upset me. Someone I trusted completely outright lied to me. That’s not the worst part. That someone was me. You see, I had weighed myself that morning, knew what the scale read, and later convinced myself that I was slender enough to eat more than ...
If Donald Trump and the radicalized Republican Party have a policy doctrine for the American people, it is simply to “make America great again.” Peeking behind the curtain, this means a return to a mythological past when Christianity, local charities, white supremacy, rural communities, ...
The scream of the cougar was last heard in Pennsylvania during a time when apex predators naturally regulated prey populations. Unfortunately, these and other predators, like the wolf, were eradicated a century ago, leaving a void that hunters tried to fill. However, times change, and ...
