Opinion
20 years later: Welfare & work
Twenty years ago the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act redefined welfare by adding a work requirement. It was the biggest change in government ...
Saturday essay: Autumn beckons
Time was when summer was the most anticipated season, regardless of the heat and the humidity. But like seasons, attitudes change. Just outside New York City, ...
America's response post-9/11: A disturbing 'stalemate'
As the nation prepares to observe the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives, the co-chairmen of the ...
Laurels & Lances
On the "Watch List": Drivers' patience. Roadwork and detours in and around Pittsburgh are frustrating enough for daily commuters. For folks who don't know the ...
Alle-Kiski Laurels & Lances
Lance: To six-classification football. You could hold the "We love the new high school football classification system" club meeting in a phone booth if they ...
The Paris Climate Agreement: A non-binding sham
The Paris climate accord ratified by President Obama has all the authenticity of a $3 bill. As a formal treaty, it would require a two-thirds ...
Trib readers weigh in on illegal immigrants and Pittsburgh's reputation
Trib readers weigh in on illegal immigrants, Pittsburgh's reputation, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and Greensburg city streets: Lloyd Kline, Mt. Lebanon: I have ...
End steel-town stereotype
End steel-town stereotype The Sept. 4 story, "Pittsburgh's reputation stymies tech industry's efforts to lure talent to region," touches on the persistent steel-town stereotype that ...
Deck stacked for Clinton
Voters' choices in November are change versus the same and war versus peace. Washington insider Hillary Clinton will be another war president. The weapons industry ...
Stop the abuse cycle
Regarding "Domestic violence experts decry Washington County kidnapping case" (: A tragedy has occurred. Another victim of domestic violence has died. The system failed this ...
Hillary will destroy America
Hillary Clinton mishandled thousands of confidential, secret and top-secret emails, but no jail time for her. Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane may go to jail ...
Flawed Trump the only choice
Americans unquestionably cannot allow the scandal-ridden, divisive Hillary Clinton to become leader of our beloved country. So what are the alternatives? Vote for a third-party ...
Exclusive to the Trib: The immutable lessons of 9/11
Al-Qaida's barbaric attacks on the United States 15 years ago caused a profound change in the way most Americans think about terrorism. Before Sept. 11, ...
Higher education, beyond parody
The University of Chicago is an intellectually elite school that can make fun of its seriousness. The slogans on undergraduate T-shirts immortalize it as "The ...
Playing with statistics
Mark Twain famously said that there were three kinds of lies — "lies, damned lies, and statistics." Since this is an election year, we can ...
The EU's taxing problem
Economics was not one of my favorite subjects in college, so I avoided economic courses. But I do know a few things about human nature. ...
Trump, the candidate
The cap does not look good on you. It's a duffer's cap, and when you come to the microphone, you look like the warm-up guy, ...
Schlafly & why conservatism still matters
Phyllis Schlafly died this week at the age of 92. I had my disagreements with the legendary conservative activist, particularly of late. She died the ...
Parsing 'free speech'
Donald Trump tells reporters, "We're going to have people sue you like you never got sued before." Hillary Clinton doesn't like her opponents funding ...
Colorado's anti-fracking crackup
If a pair of extreme green ballot measures fall in the Rocky Mountains and no one in the liberal media is paying attention, does the ...
Corrupt academics & the media
Some are puzzled by the dishonesty, lack of character and sheer stupidity of many people in the media. But seeing as most of them are ...
Clinton vows to expand failed energy polices
Why does U.S. energy policy have to save the world? It actually doesn't, and in fact it can't. But you'd never know it from the ...
A closer look at Trump
In 1964, Phyllis Schlafly of Alton, Ill., mother of six, wrote and published a slim volume titled "A Choice Not an Echo." Backing the candidacy ...
Treat Russia as a threat
The next U.S. president should recognize that Russia under Vladimir Putin is an authoritarian, kleptocratic regime that poses a serious threat to our values, interests ...
Our 1 percent economy
Have you noticed that Hillary Clinton wants to talk about the economy about as much as she wants to talk about Monica Lewinsky or Benghazi? ...
Labor Day signals need for labor reform
On Labor Day, millions of Americans will celebrate the contributions of working men and women. The holiday was dreamed up in the late 19th century ...
Prudence can save health care
The Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare, also is well-known for the trouble it keeps getting into. The most recent chapter could be the ...
