Kevin McCoy of Philadelphia is very blessed — and very grateful. His academic achievements are extraordinary, but he says he almost missed his shot at success.

Every June, Pennsylvania’s educators and parents find themselves in familiar territory — pleading with state lawmakers to increase funding that their public schools desperately need to educate students and keep up with expenses.

Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan relied on Ruth Freitag to find many of the materials they used to interpret the galaxy. As a reference librarian at the Library of Congress for nearly half a century, she helped numerous other scientists locate obscure but valuable sources.

The U.S. intelligence community released a report in March that outlined how the Iranian and Russian governments orchestrated digital attacks on U.S. social media platforms to influence the 2020 election.

In 1862, in the Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln declared millions of enslaved people in the United States to be free. However, because word traveled slowly back then, and because many slave owners refused to obey the proclamation, Black people in deep Southern states, in…

The reputation of the Christian church in the West has taken a bit of a beating over the past year or so — some of the criticism undeserved and some of it well earned.

The American foster care system was designed to help children in poor living conditions, children without parents or relatives to care for them and children from abusive households.

Recently, Princeton professor and historian Alan Guelzo issued a stern warning: “We are threatened by fracture, and it’s a fracturing in which we cease to regard each other as fellow Americans.”

Dear Dr. Scribblercal:

Culture is an integral part of all ethnic, racial and religious groups. Each group has its own cultural values, beliefs and traditions. But a common denominator cuts across different cultural values: truth.

“If being ‘woke’ means knowing the full story of your community and country, including the systemic racism that still shapes them, then every thinking adult should be.”

“All men (and women) are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”