Opinion

Joe Biden was probably always going to be a one-term president. His age was a political liability when he defeated Donald Trump in 2020. And given how time works, it will be more so in 2024.

Poverty retreating; means to control COVID; and infrastructure coming including connectivity, broadband and cell service (imagine, no more trips to McDonalds or Walmart parking lots for internet); shots in the arm; cash in your pocket; and help for rural schools and hospitals; all through Democrats working for you, for all of us.

As the Taliban seize control of Kabul and indeed all of Afghanistan, it is worth pondering the less obvious lessons of this 20-year episode. It is a reminder of why I cannot bring myself to be a foreign policy hawk, even though I largely accept the hawks’ worldview and underlying values.

Health care today is bolstered by science and technology that seems to advance more quickly than it ever has before. But despite amazing technical advances, some argue that the greatest challenge in medicine is getting even basic, routine care to people who need it at a time and in a way that is convenient for them.

In the critical vote over the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act, Pennsylvania’s two senators voted perhaps as you would have expected.

It’s not as if Tom Mann is happy to say “I told you so.”

It seems the debate over masking has new life.

Now is the summer of our discontent — that’s pretty much the way we all felt a year ago, when we were shut down, locked up and trapped in the pandemic summer of 2020.

To defend our 245-year-old democracy, a rational bipartisan Congress would have convicted Trump at his second impeachment trial and nullified his future return to power.

Consider this premise: For good or ill, the full legalization of marijuana in the United States for recreational purposes is inevitable.