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Lamb tries leading Fetterman to pasture

By Richard Robbins Conor Lamb is back. The former Allegheny County congressman who lost a Democratic Senate primary to John Fetterman in 2022 is speaking at political venues across the state, broadcasting on Substack, jotting regularly on X, and showing up on national television. Young, ...

Cinematic truth and Robert Redford

Robert Redford, the actor whose golden smile and understated persona warmed movie screens for decades, attended the University of Colorado on a baseball scholarship. When he died on Tuesday at 89, Redford was remembered, among other things, for his one baseball movie: “The ...

The importance of unions in 2025

Michael Podhorzer wants you to know that living in a state that values unions is healthier than living in one that doesn't. Writing at Weekend Read in April, Podhorzer said that "those living in states with so-called right-to-work laws, which makes it nearly impossible to organize ...

Democrats are losing ground big time

In a span of four years - from 2020 to 2024 - Democrats lost 2.1 million registered voters in the 30 states where registration by party takes place. This includes Pennsylvania. In the six years from 2018 to 2024, the Republican percentage of new voters rose by 9% while Democrats fell 8%, a ...

The ego in chief steals the show, again

Among other things that he alone decides, President Trump this past week pondered who might be honored by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Kennedy Center Honors is an extravaganza of the first magnitude, in addition to being a sumptuous trove of television images and ...

This is how a nation’s spirit is broken

By Richard Robbins A nation that lies to itself about itself is in its essentials untrustworthy; divorced from factual reality, it is a nation doomed to self-deceit and self-dealing, such as to render it inoperable. We are on the precipice of becoming such a nation. The significance of ...