There is a raging debate in the U.S. on how to pay for the COVID rescue, infrastructure, and national debt. The much-offered solution is to raise taxes. But is there a better, untapped source of new revenue? In his article, “Math of Rich, Taxes Don’t Add Up,” Andrew Wilford touches on ...

The United States is an outlier among established democracies in two respects: We face both falling social trust and rising polarization. I have argued that the two dynamics connect in a doom loop. Trust in others and institutions falls, leading to greater polarization, which drives trust down ...

In December, a Democratic activist group led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder filed a lawsuit over congressional redistricting in Pennsylvania, where the state House voted on a proposed map last week. The National Redistricting Action Fund argues that Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and the ...

There is nothing like a steaming bowl of soup to warm you up on a very cold day. The weather this past weekend certainly lent itself to the making of homemade soup. Let me begin by saying that it is almost impossible to make a small batch of soup. I dug out my stock pot and started in. I make ...

Someone recently told me to picture my memory as a bucket full of water – with a slow leak. I immediately thought of the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike. Memory is our brain’s amazing ability to store information, mental images, or accounts of past events. In other words, to ...

For rural Pennsylvanians, a college education can be hard to come by. It’s not an issue of desire. It’s an issue of access. I live in Warren County. I love where I live, but for many here college is out of reach because we have so few nearby college institutions. Just 19.5% of Warren ...