MONTREAL – Listen carefully at the most storied corner in Canada, right here where Atwater Avenue meets St. Catherine Street, an intersection that…
Author: David Shribman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Joe Biden Is the Last Politician of His Kind
Joe Biden may have been the right answer to the tumult in the country at the end of Donald Trump’s first term. And his climate-change legislation…
Our National Summer Is Waning
For most parts of the country, this has been a splendid summer, full of sunshine and sunscreen, the weather a welcome contrast to the political climate. Americans have flocked to the shore and the lakeside, wandered among the hills, lingered well afte…
Everything We Knew Was Wrong
We are living a Brock Lovett moment. Brock Lovett? Reel your memory back a quarter century. Summon the most dramatic moment in the 1997 film
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Iowa’s Silence Belies Its Huge Political Voice
Perhaps it is the long, lonely winters; perhaps it is the isolation of the great farms. Whatever the reason, Iowa is a state of profound quiet. The first…
CA’s Trailer for November’s Blockbuster
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Bipartisanship Loses a Role Model
One was gracious, the other garrulous. One was severe, the other soft. One was rail-thin; the other carried a spare tire around his waist. One never touched…
The Value and Urgency of Voting in America
Most Americans are spectators in today’s most critical struggle for democratic values – being battled at every hour of every day in Ukraine. But…
A Tipping Point for the World’s Democracies
The American national anthem celebrates