Gov. Josh Shapiro is frequently described as popular, strong, and politically formidable. That description has been repeated so often in Pennsylvania political coverage that it is hardening into conventional wisdom. But repetition is not proof. When examined from Washington County – where ...
Editor’s note: This is the first of four parts. American foreign policy after World War II was dominated by the Cold War, which was seen as an existential battle with the Soviet Union. The United States created the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe and keep it from going communist, which was ...
Republicans claim to be fiscal conservatives. That may have been true at one time, but that hasn’t been so for decades. The change began in the 1970s, when Jude Wanniski came up with the “two Santas” analysis of budgetary politics. Wanniski argued that the Democrats win voters by ...
If you’re often uninspired by the candidates on your ballot, now may be the time to throw your own hat into the ring. Democracy is not a spectator sport. From the very founding of our nation, citizen involvement has been the backbone of the American government. Active participation sustains ...
