Op-Ed

If the lack of an external enemy since the end of the Cold War has made America weak and feckless, as some argue, then can the rise of China give America a newfound vigor and […]

Nearly 300 years ago, Benjamin Franklin, one of our country’s most influential Founding Fathers, was obsessively worried about how well the residents of the city of Philadelphia responded to and fought fires. He often wrote […]

I read with interest the op-ed from state Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, who has been in the legislature since 2007 and hasn’t done anything about escalating school property taxes on homeowners, who increasingly struggle to […]

I never liked the campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.” The implication was that we’d entered some dystopian era in which America was unexceptional, unpleasant, and diminished. Watching the red-hatted #MAGA folk cheer at Donald […]

Twenty-seven years ago, I was in Afghanistan to watch the Russians cut and run from a military quagmire and failed occupation that helped bring down the Soviet Union. In 2018, America is ready to walk […]

Who is the anonymous “senior administration official” who wrote last week’s op-ed in the New York Times? You know, the one who boasted of taking part in a shadow government that sees its noble mission […]

Sept. 11, 2001. If you were old enough to remember that day, it’s certainly one you will never forget, not even if you lived five lifetimes. The first thing that stands out is how gorgeous […]

The U.S.-China trade war escalated again in late August, with each side imposing duties on an additional $16 billion of imports from the other. That brings the total value of exports exposed to duties to […]

I tried to pay attention to what Judge Brett Kavanaugh was saying during the hearings this week. For anyone as addicted to the Supreme Court as I am, a nomination hearing is more exciting than […]

Nike’s decision to feature ostracized quarterback Colin Kaepernick on a television advertisement smacks of the very same hypocrisy Kaepernick demonstrated by kneeling instead of standing to protest the oppression of African Americans while the national […]

Recently in Wilkes-Barre, my legislative colleagues and I hosted the House Democratic Policy Committee for a hearing on tax fairness in Pennsylvania. During this hearing, the testifiers noted their concerns and offered new sources of […]