Since January, the president has moved with more aggressive force than a summer thunderstorm. With a storm, we quickly lose interest unless the power goes out or the basement floods. Similar to a summer storm, we became disengaged from the disruptive upheaval of Donald Trump’s Department of ...
The Greater Pittsburgh Region has a storied history of forging new industries. Steel, coal, natural gas, glass production and even the advanced health care and financial sectors can all trace their origins to our region. These industries were capitalized by local corporate leaders, advanced ...
The “Big, Beautiful Bill” that just became law is a horrendous piece of legislation; the main thrust of the bill is that it cuts services to low-income Americans (SNAP and Medicaid) to provide tax cuts to the wealthy. If the wealthy were struggling, that would be a benefit. But since 1975, ...
Some of us who graduated from liberal arts institutions have recently found ourselves returning to our dusty textbooks on American political theory, philosophy, and economics. This refresher course has become more common (and necessary) since President Trump and his MAGA followers took over the ...
Editor's note: This is the second of two parts. As we observe continuing political fights over taxes and social programs, we must not lose sight of the government’s most basic duty: defending the nation and securing its borders. A secure nation at home and abroad is not optional, it’s the ...
He never made any more than minimum wage, but one of his perks was a house that he rented from his bosses. He had come from dire poverty, the second of three sons born to sharecroppers beholden to a duke in a little village in central Italy. Consequently, poverty was not a new way of life for ...
