Commentary
Here’s how the FTC’s proposed ban on non-compete clauses would help workers | Opinion
It would raise wages for low-income workers while letting employers choose who to hire.
Regulating ‘forever chemicals’: 3 essential reads on PFAS | Analysis
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to release a draft regulation limiting two fluorinated chemicals, known by the abbreviations PFOA and PFOS, in drinking water.
Pa.’s schools are falling apart. This is one thing we can do about it | Opinion
This is not 'just' a local problem, or 'just' an urban or rural problem, it is a true statewide crisis
‘Parental rights’ advocates don’t really trust parents | Kathie Obradovich
The only ones getting protection are the powerful interest groups that the politicians can trust to get them reelected.
Rupert Murdoch said the quiet part about Fox News out loud | Dick Polman
The rajah of right-wing propaganda has been stripped bare.
Why the humble city bus is the key to improving U.S. public transit | Opinion
Many U.S. cities are coming around to the idea that buses are the future of public transit and are working to make that vision real.
When it comes to transgender healthcare, we’re more in agreement than not | Mark Segal
By Mark Segal Last week found me in London for what turned out to be three major speaking events. It also came in the wake of what I believe is one of the most horrible of trans hate actions ever publicly reported in the United Kingdom: 16-year-old Brianna Ghey was killed when she was stabbed […]
Nebraska’s nonpartisan, one-house Legislature works just fine. Don’t change it | Opinion
A General Assembly free of partisanship puts the people first. Is there a lesson for Pa. here?
The next step in school funding: A rural-urban coalition to achieve educational equity | Opinion
Educational equity and justice will require more than a historical court ruling. It will require legislative action.
It’s time to hear bold leadership on oil & gas in Gov. Shapiro’s budget address | Opinion
Enough with the industry making its own rules.
Venus, Jupiter and the humbling reminder of our own place in creation | John L. Micek
The two planets, in conjunction this week, will continue their endless – and ageless – transit across the night sky whether we’re here to look at it or not.
When does clinical depression become an emergency? 4 questions answered | Analysis
The good news is that depression responds well to treatment.