If you think it was stressful waiting for election boards around the country to count the millions of votes in the presidential election, imagine being the workers who were doing […]

Finally … some much-needed good news in the battle against the coronavirus. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. announced Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine showed an astounding 90% effectiveness rate in early […]

We’ve been hearing for months that whoever wins Pennsylvania would win the White House. We also knew that due to the pandemic and unprecedented turnout, counties would have to process […]

  At a time when its legitimacy as an apolitical institution is being questioned, the Supreme Court has been dragged into partisan disputes about when and how ballots should be […]

The 2016 presidential campaign was the first in which Republican candidates, including Donald J. Trump, called for paid family leave. The GOP’s embrace of this idea is driven by the […]

Since he took office nearly four years ago, President Donald Trump has routinely flouted the Constitution’s requirement that top political appointees be confirmed with the “advice and consent” of the […]

The prescription opioid crisis that has taken well over 100,000 American lives and ruined hundreds of thousands more wasn’t just an accident of time or the byproduct of a dysfunctional […]

Our nation’s Founding Fathers instituted the national census as a count of all people, an enumeration that is the basis of federal funding, the distribution of political representation among the […]

After Tuesday’s daylong Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court came a one-paragraph, unsigned opinion from her potential future colleagues: […]

With less than a month remaining in the  campaign, the country faces the specter of a chaotic Election Day. President  Trump has urged his supporters to “go in to the […]