We’d like Pennsylvania to be No. 1 in, say, state education funding (itĢƵ not close). Or in national sports championships.But not in hate propaganda.This dubious distinction makes us ill.It does, however, make clear why the Lancaster County Local Journalism Fund, an initiative seeded and ...
Surviving family members and friends of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have a right to be livid over military prosecutors’ willingness to negotiate plea deals for five 9/11 defendants being detained at the Guantanamo Bay high-security prison in Cuba.In exchange for guilty ...
More than 30 years ago, a <em>Los Angeles Times</em> columnist decried the ignorance most Americans had about the rest of the world, describing us as “a nation of no-nothings.”In the three decades since, our understanding of people and societies beyond our ...