National rally to demand end to frack attack
After a recent report that New York officials are considering allowing fracking to take place, environmental activists have announced they are fighting back.
Today in labor history: Homestead strikers battle Pinkerton thugs
On July 6, 1892, under the cover of darkness, two barges, loaded with armed Pinkerton thugs hired by the Carnegie Steel Co., landed on the south bank of the Monongahela River.
A subculture evolving: Women in metal speak out
Women do now represent a sizable chunk of the metal scene - meaning that the genre is expanding and becoming more diverse.
Pennsylvania politics continues to trump health and environment
The latest is how Gov. Tom Corbett separated one of the wealthiest and more high-tech/industrial areas of the state from the rural areas.
Today in history: Voting age lowered to 18
President Richard Nixon, under popular pressure, formally certified the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Capitalism is an irrational system
What explains this attachment to policies that leave the U.S. and Europe in stagnation and could well throw the world into a deep depression?
Immigration nation
Who could be more anti-American than those who seek to keep undocumented immigrants away from the fruits of equality fought for by generations of Americans?
Blood and citizenship: Black soldiers and the 4th of July
As we celebrate Independence Day, it is worth remembering how important documents are to us - and where the authority for those documents comes from.
