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Shooter’s Neighbors Portray Detached, Reclusive Family July 18, 2024
BETHEL PARK, Pennsylvania – Conversations by The Pennsylvania Daily Star with around two dozen neighbors near the house where Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump, lived painted a picture of a family t...
Courage and Cowardice in Pennsylvania July 16, 2024
On 13 July, under a clear blue sky in Butler, Pennsylvania, bullets sliced through the air piercing the ear of the former president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. While he escaped death thanks to the tilt of his head, a stray bullet fatally i...
Bad News for Democrats in Pennsylvania’s ‘Latino Belt’ February 12, 2024
HAZLETON, Pennsylvania — In the final hours before residents cast their votes here last November, Mayor Aneudy Ortiz Sajiun worked the wards of this northeastern Pennsylvania city of 30,000 in the hopes of ensuring a third consecutive term in City Ha...
Eat and Be Eaten February 09, 2024
The café was hers, and so of course it was named after her. I came upon Sissy’s late one afternoon in January of 2017, when I was young and careless and in Kamakura, Japan. I had spent the day wandering the hills (my photos are of graves, statues, th...
Warm Memories of Our Coal Furnace March 31, 2023
It may seem odd to some that an inanimate piece of mechanical equipment could spark fond memories. But replace “coal furnace” with “first car” and you’ll gain a sense of what I mean. In its day, our old coal furnace kept us warm, but to my grandfathe...
'The Forgotten' by Ben Bradlee Jr. October 01, 2018
At one point in “The Forgotten,” a new book on the 2016 election as it played out in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Ben Bradlee Jr. recounts a text-message conversation carried out the day after Trump’s victory. A grandmother who supported Trump messa...
"Fahrenheit 451," Updated at University of Pennsylvania April 23, 2018
On the Amy Wax controversy surrounding the University of Pennsylvania Law School......
The Political Writings of William Penn February 03, 2015
William Penn played a crucial role in the articulation of religious liberty as a philosophical and political value during the second half of the seventeenth century and as a core element of the classical liberal tradition in general. Penn was not onl...
