Lester C. Olson: Communication can help de-escalate our current situation
Armed conflicts and U.S. citizens’ deaths in Minneapolis have riveted attention across the nation. We’ve seen the videos and the photos of graphic violence. We’ve seen the heartbreaking photos of a 5-year-old preschool boy and a 2-year-old girl detained by ICE. We have read the upsetting media accounts of countless...
Editorial: The number of Americans who feel politically homeless is rising. Understandably so
A record 45% of American adults now identify as political independents, according to new Gallup polling — up from 33% in 1990. That’s a big change. As the ranks of the politically homeless grow, the share of Americans who call themselves Democrat or Republican continues to shrink. That’s hardly surprising....
Editorial cartoons for the week of Jan. 26
Editorial cartoons for the week of Jan. 26....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Jan. 26
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Jan. 26....
Abby McCloskey: Too many kids already know someone who’s been deepfaked
The pre-AI world is gone. Estimates suggest that already, as many as one in eight kids personally knows someone who has been the target of a deepfake photo or video, with numbers rising to one in four who have seen a sexualized deepfake of someone they recognize, either a friend...
Gene Baur: New food pyramid is a recipe for health disasters
The meat industry’s celebration of the Trump administration’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans should be a clear sign that these new guidelines aren’t for the people. It’s true that “the United States is amid a health emergency,” as Secretaries Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brooke Rollins state. However, in claiming to...
Letter to the editor: Comparing Renee Good, Jan. 6 rioters
It’s amazing. Anyone who gets shot by the unidentified, masked ICE agents is automatically described as a “member of some Latin American gang” or a “domestic terrorist” (37-year-old U.S. citizen mother Renee Good), and deserves to be shot in the face for not submitting to the screaming orders of unidentified...
Letter to the editor: Our leaders must support clean energy
Erika Strassburger’s op-ed “Clean energy provides jobs, consumer savings” (Jan. 20, TribLive) has some great news about America’s clean energy industry. As Strassburger points out, clean energy companies like Eos Energy invest in communities by building factories, helping people learn new skills and creating jobs for the future. With new...
Letter to the editor: What will it take to disavow Trump?
Will his actions and behavior ever be enough to dissuade those who propelled Donald Trump into office for a second reign? Was it enough when he responded to a heckler with profanity and an obscene gesture? What does one tell an impressionable child when something like this takes place? Is...
Letter to the editor: Democrats need to put Americans first
When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. When you find yourself out of money, stop spending. That is common sense. The government is out of funds, yet Democrats want massive spending commitments before approving funding. Affordable Care Act health benefits and subsidies for immigrants is the major issue....
Letter to the editor: Trump and the Ten Commandments
President Trump’s actions so far in 2026 have been head-spinning, but we can get clarity by checking them against some of the oldest and best instructions out there: the Ten Commandments. “Thou shalt not covet … anything of thy neighbor.” Trump says he attacked Venezuela to take its oil, and...
Letter to the editor: Help end online cat torture
Kittens and cats are being brutally tortured to death in online videos daily. In terms of sheer brutality, utter depravity, tremendous suffering and pure evil, this is the worst violence ever intentionally inflicted on animals — for “entertainment.” Methods include dismembering, skinning, crucifying, eviscerating, burning and mutilating, to name just...
Letter to the editor: Trump regime must be replaced
George Washington, in his farewell address, had two warnings. One was against a popular demagogue rising to the presidency and destroying liberty in his egotistical power quests. The other was this: “Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly...
Letter to the editor: Pa. must ban live pigeon shoots
Bucks County is home to a cruel and primitive practice that most Pennsylvanians believe belongs in the past: live pigeon shoots, held at the Philadelphia Gun Club in Bensalem. While the vast majority of states have outlawed this cruelty, legislative loopholes and political maneuvering have allowed it to continue in...
Editorial: ‘The Pitt’ shows why representation includes place
“Did you see on ‘The Pitt’…?” It’s becoming a regular refrain after the HBO Max medical series airs Thursdays. Each episode, set in a fictional Pittsburgh hospital, becomes a scavenger hunt of familiar yinzer treasures. The most recent included references to the Pittsburgh synagogue shootings and Zambelli Fireworks. Others have...
Joseph Sabino Mistick: Who will stand up to government by threat?
You are not alone if you are astonished that the United States of America has been at the threshold of war because of Donald Trump’s hurt feelings over not winning the Norway-based Nobel Peace Prize. Trump takes everything personally, which makes you wonder how he has any room in his...
Imran Khalid: America’s 2 economies — soaring stocks and slashed food stamps
The close of the 2025 holiday season has revealed a stark divide in the U.S. economy. As 2026 begins, the United States appears to be operating in two financial realities: record corporate profits and soaring stock values for the wealthy, alongside deepening hardship for millions of ordinary households. For many...
Letter to the editor: ‘Transgender law’ doesn’t supersede natural law
The transgender athlete ban case being considered by the Supreme Court reminds me of a phrase I read while in undergraduate school. The phrase, as I recall, was intended to describe or detect a sense of humor or understanding the “absurd and incongruous.” It was drawn on the writings of...
Letter to the editor: Volunteer fire companies need financial support
The New Stanton Volunteer Fire Department needs to replace its 74-year-old fire station and has been working since 2022 to get major financial support from community-based businesses. They mailed solicitation letters to 19 major national and international businesses, including Amazon, Dollar General, Marriott Corporation, McDonald’s, United Parcel Service and FedEx....
Letter to the editor: How much will rebuilding Venezuela cost us?
Paul Singer became a billionaire through his vulture hedge fund ($65.5 billion in assets). He is also a major Republican donor and has given President Trump and related PACs millions of dollars. In November 2025, at a mandated fire sale, Singer paid $5.9 billion for Citgo, Venezuela’s $18 billion oil...
Editorial: Filling Downtown is more than empty gesture
When hundreds of thousands of people descend on Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft in April, they should be greeted by a spruced-up Steel City. The landmark fountain at Point State Park has recently undergone a $3.4 million upgrade. Market Square is in the midst of a $15 million face-lift. And...
Letter to the editor: Phony protests
The constant anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis and other Democrat-controlled sanctuary cities are becoming mob riots. Democrats and their media sycophants try to tell the public that these are peaceful protests, but in my opinion, they have become illegal, violent actions against law enforcement personnel and against law-abiding citizens, including storming...
Letter to the editor: McCormick’s response to Good killing is ‘inappropriate’
Sen. Dave McCormick’s response to the murder of a 37-year-old mother of three on a residential street in Minneapolis, Minn., seems to have implications for every 13-year-old boy on playgrounds across the country. Apparently, it is now a crime punishable by death to “act inappropriately.” Wow! I, myself, should have...
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s Greenland folly hated by voters, GOP
“We cannot live our lives or govern our countries based on social media posts.” That’s what a European Union official, who was directly involved in negotiations between the U.S. and Europe over Greenland, said after President Trump’s announcement via Truth Social that we’ve “formed the framework of a future deal...
Llewellyn King: The rule of law is the foundation of civilization
The men you see in masks on your television savagely arresting people may not seem like your affair. But they are your affair and mine, and that of every other American. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates outside the law. It doesn’t disclose charges, and no one arrested sees a...
