In one day of savagery, Hamas brought the world’s oldest hatred into the mainstream. The upwelling of antisemitism around the globe, and especially in the United States, mocks the naivety of those who imagined that the oldest hatred was mostly in the past, that Israel could be a normal ...
After two weeks, we are still building an impression of the new House speaker, Rep. Mike Johnson. Moderates like me, and others to my left, will not find much common ground with the Republican from northwest Louisiana on issues.Nonetheless, I don’t want Johnson to fail. I want him to change. ...
The 10-story Brown Building, site of one of the deadliest workplace disasters in United States history, stands one block east of Washington Square Park in New York City. Despite three bronze plaques noting its significance, it has long been easy to pass by without further thought.On March 25, ...
Allegheny County voters go to the polls on Tuesday to choose the first new chief executive in 12 years. Over the past year, the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy has made four key recommendations that the incoming Allegheny County executive must entertain.In 2024, the county government will ...
<em>“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again”</em><strong>--C.S. Lewis</strong>Last June, while browsing through the latest issue of the London Review of Books, I came across an essay on the life and works of ...
In September 2019, a team of medical professionals implanted a new heart valve into the aortic opening of my heart. This TAVR (Transcatheter Aortic Valve) procedure involved placing the valve through my femoral artery. The physicians guided a catheter, carrying the engineered valve, through the ...
