What is U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson waiting for? Months ago, the Louisiana Republican was handed broadly popular legislation to protect children from the harms of social media. But he vowed this week not to…

Judging from Thursday evening’s Christmas program, I would argue that second grade is the best of all. The children were idyllic. Neat as a pin. Well-behaved. And enthusiastic.  Such behavior is learned.  Before the program…

The arrest of 26-year-old Luigi Mangione on the charge of murdering a healthcare CEO ends the hunt for the mystery man with a hoodie. But what it doesn’t solve is the mystery of why an…

Fears of a press crackdown under Donald Trump’s second term deepened with his nomination of Kash Patel as FBI director — given his calls for retribution against journalists. Yet a rare chance to protect press…

If life is full of surprises, life in the Middle East is full of shocks. Even by that standard, the fall of Damascus is a stunner.  Until two weeks ago, nothing in the region seemed…

Conservatives who support Donald Trump’s choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Health and Human Services Department say he will disrupt the healthcare bureaucracy. They may be right. But he could also disrupt…

South Korea’s decades-old democracy was put to the test on Tuesday when President Yoon Suk Yeol declared “emergency martial law,” suspending all political activity, ordering the country’s independent media to adhere to military control, and…

Donald Trump’s Saturday night announcement that he’s going to nominate a new director of the FBI, the woefully unqualified and completely unfit Kash Patel, is premature by a few years because the director’s position is…

A September study in the Journal of the American Medical Association illustrates just how interconnected mental health and community truly are.  By cross-referencing survey results about emotional well-being from over 2,000 Allegheny County teenagers with…

The pushback against cruise ships in the world’s top tourist destinations is nothing new.  More than three years ago, these vast vessels were barred from Venice’s lagoon on grounds of the risk they posed to…