In January 2024, the magazine The Atlantic produced a special issue built around the theme “If Trump Wins.” A bipartisan group of political scientists, journalists, and historians weighed in on what a second Trump administration would mean for the country. The special issue was ...
When Donald Trump was president, he flipped the Republican Party’s stance on free trade. Historically, Republicans had been the party of manufacturers and favored tariffs to protect their industries from foreign competition. After World War II, when the manufacturing bases of our ...
With the changing of the guard in Washington, D.C., on the near horizon, it seemed only fitting that I dedicate a little time to words that we will not be hearing very often after our current president retires to his home in Delaware. Seriously, this is not hyperbole. No one definitively ...
I ran for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 14th Congressional District for many reasons: to return the health care decisions of women to them; to strengthen unions; to make education affordable; and, as a veteran myself, to advocate for my fellow service members. After winning the Democratic ...
I kick off every morning by checking the local and regional sports scores in a newsletter emailed to my smartphone by my hometown newspaper. I then scroll through a feed of breaking news. This information matters to my family and me. It is a compilation of Pittsburgh-area news I cannot get ...
“The vice presidency is not worth a bucket of warm spit.” – John Nance Garner There has long been disagreement among political scientists whether vice-presidential candidates make a difference in presidential elections. The much-repeated quote about the vice presidency from John ...
