John L. Micek

When one of the Pennsylvania Legislature's most conservative members announced her desire to pass "Second Amendment Sanctuary" ordinances that defy state and federal gun laws, ... Read More

Talking To My Daughter About War and Fires We were on the way to ballet rehearsal. It's my favorite 30 minutes of the day. It's a ... Read More

It didn't take long for "World War III" to become a trending topic on Twitter in the hours after news broke that a drone strike ... Read More

If you're celebrating a recent federal appellate court ruling that overturned language in the Affordable Care Act requiring you to have health insurance or pay ... Read More

What a Pennsylvania impeachment 25 years ago says about where we are now In 1994, state Rep. Frank Dermody was a backbench Democrat serving his second ... Read More

It's not often that you get to watch what conservative author Tom Nichols has called "the death of expertise" unfold in real time. But that's exactly ... Read More

You could be forgiven for missing it in the build-up to Thanksgiving and the blizzard of impeachment news, but America's fact-challenged chief executive was up ... Read More

The Trump administration's foreign policy, such as it is, has been described a lot of different ways. But one word that's never been applied to ... Read More

If Ambassador Bill Taylor didn't exist already, we'd have to invent him. With a made-for-TV voice filled to the brim with gravitas, the West Point grad ... Read More

Going into Tuesday night, if you were a swing-state progressive, it was pretty easy to be discouraged about the state of the presidential race. But the ... Read More