My husband went to California on a business trip a few weeks ago. While he was away, I found myself doing something completely out of character – switching on the TV while cooking or reading the paper. A silent house felt lonely. In 1960, just 13% of households were comprised of single ...
Some people suspect that Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” camp is barely a step away from “Make America White Again.” They found a lot of food for that thought in the MAGA world’s reaction to this year’s Super Bowl pregame show.The show included Sheryl Lee Ralph of ...
Public education is under attack in America.Right-wing conservatives and Christian nationalists have launched culture-war attacks against teachers unions, masking policies during the pandemic, LGBTQ students, the content of school libraries and textbooks and the teaching of accurate history. ...
You hear it all the time, including from me: Our politics is too partisan, too polarized, too divided. Why can’t both parties work together for the common good?But it’s worth pointing out that sometimes bipartisan consensus is awful.The worst form of elite agreement is usually the product ...
Immediate steps must be taken to begin reducing the legislatively spawned multibillion-dollar debt of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, concludes a new analysis by the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy.“The state Legislature created this mess and should take steps to remedy the ...
Joe Biden’s America has embarked on a muscular industrial policy aimed at curbing climate change, building U.S. manufacturing and competing with China. That’s a lot of going on, though the broader public doesn’t seem to be paying it much mind. Unidentified flying objects make for better ...
