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Inflation Is Eating Away at the Heart of America's Small Businesses Jan. 25, 2022
Of the four restaurants Rick McQuaide owns across several counties in Western Pennsylvania, one is b... Read More
The Republican Party's Multiethnic, Working-Class Coalition Is Taking Shape Dec. 10, 2021
In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primary, decades of dissonance between the party's aggriev... Read More
Bring Back Brandon Nov. 11, 2021
I missed the national moment that was Brandon. Blame it on work. If your head has been similarly bur... Read More
Taking On Monopolies Nov. 10, 2021
From our school years forward, the Holy Keepers of the Corporate Order drum it into our little heads... Read More
Pennsylvania Leapt Further Right on Election Night Nov. 09, 2021
ERIE, Pennsylvania — Voters in the Keystone State, as in Virginia, took Tuesday's election as ... Read More
America Is Still Working Sep. 29, 2021
The Census Bureau has just issued its latest annual report, "Income and Poverty in the United States... Read More
British Labour's Problems Could Hurt Democrats, Too May. 14, 2021
Five years ago next month, British voters, in the largest turnout ever, voted to leave the European ... Read More
Coal Workers Union Doesn't Always Represent Coal Worker Values May. 04, 2021
GRAYSVILLE, Pennsylvania — When coal mine employee John Morecraft heard last Monday that Unite... Read More
Ancient and Lonely Urban Monuments Evoke Today's Political Division Apr. 27, 2021
PITTSBURGH — The 2.8-mile-long East Street Valley neighborhood, which once flourished here, su... Read More
Trump Didn't Form a Populist Coalition; He Was the Result of One Apr. 20, 2021
PITTSBURGH — They're still there, planted in front of stately homes in wealthy suburban neighb... Read More
As an Industry Faces Destruction, It Grows a Voting Coalition Mar. 02, 2021
FRIEDENS, Pennsylvania — Imagine if you had a job. A good job, one that required skill and cri... Read More
Will We Answer the Wake-Up Call Before our Country Is Completely Destroyed? Feb. 12, 2021
It's sort of shocking that a series of left-wing riots around the nation followed by a right-wing ri... Read More
Biden's First Actions Desecrate His Words Feb. 02, 2021
Love. Unity. One nation of care and compassion for all. Those were the inspiring messages of Preside... Read More
The Lost Verses Jan. 22, 2021
The girls and boys are out tonight in my town, walking back and forth in front of the old gray grani... Read More
Lockdowns Are the Great Unequalizer Dec. 22, 2020
Democrats and their liberal economic advisers obsess about income inequality. Will someone please te... Read More
Immigration Politics Went Away During COVID-19. It's Coming Back. Dec. 18, 2020
Donald Trump famously sought the presidency in 2016 on a platform that elevated the immigration issu... Read More
Don't Reverse Trump's Pro-Working-Class Policies Dec. 02, 2020
Once upon a time, the Democratic Party tried to favor the working class. Not anymore, and never has ... Read More
Amid Democrats' White House Win, a Sobering Fact Nov. 07, 2020
Joe Biden has reason to be proud; in the last 107 years, only three American presidential nominees h... Read More
The Birth of the Coalition of Normal People May Be Upon Us Nov. 06, 2020
Throughout this election, there were signs of the birth of a coalition of normal people unhappy with... Read More
Biden's War Against the South Nov. 03, 2020
Joe Biden has said he wants to be president of ALL the states and that he doesn't see red states and... Read More
