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Dec 2, 2024
While I’ve lived almost my entire life in the orbit of the City of Pittsburgh, and the last decade within city limits, I’m a newcomer to studying...
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Nov 11, 2024
After Tuesday, there is no going back. Any attempt to recreate the political norms and coalitions of the pre-Trump era will fail. It is now clear that...
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Nov 4, 2024
I didn’t think I’d be writing this column two years ago, when Trump-endorsed candidates bombed across the country in the midterm elections....
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Oct 28, 2024
It’s the suburban resident’s nightmare scenario, and it happened in Moon this week. A periodically unhoused person migrates to the suburbs...
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Oct 21, 2024
For Democrats in Pennsylvania and around the country, the lesson of 2022 (and 2023) was clear: There’s nothing to be lost and everything to be gained...
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Oct 7, 2024
The most striking feature of American political life today isn’t polarization, or emotionalism, or identity: It’s distrust. Measurable trust...
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Sep 9, 2024
The bipartisan consensus against the Nippon Steel deal is an agreement to further devastate the Mon Valley economy, clownishly dressed up as pro-worker...
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Sep 2, 2024
In Philadelphia on Aug. 6, an enormous crowd of supporters exulted in the announcement of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as Vice President Kamala Harris’s...
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Aug 12, 2024
A psychotherapist could have a field day with the last month of America’s presidential election. From fixation on Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s past...
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Aug 5, 2024
Bill Peduto’s 2021 defeat at the hands of Ed Gainey is often chalked up to enthusiasm to elect the city’s first Black mayor, and to disapproval...
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Jul 29, 2024
“I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But...
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Jul 22, 2024
It was November 2019, and I was driving to Cincinnati to give a speech. At the time I was a book editor for a Catholic publisher, but I was nurturing a...
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Jul 18, 2024
On Saturday evening my 7-year-old daughter and I were at our first Pittsburgh Riverhounds game when, around 6:20 p.m., my phone buzzed. It was a text from...
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Jul 8, 2024
It’s said that after candidly testifying to the Atlanta grand jury about Donald Trump’s interference with Georgia elections, South Carolina...
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Jul 1, 2024
That was a new low. Thursday’s presidential debate was a humiliating spectacle for President Joe Biden personally, and for the United States of America...
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Jun 17, 2024
Out-of-town firms that work closely with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have benefitted to the tune of millions of dollars from the success...
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Jun 10, 2024
Nothing thus far in Pittsburgh’s current age of mediocrity has demonstrated the city’s (and region’s) lack of leadership more clearly...
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May 27, 2024
In 1972, George McGovern thought the 26th Amendment would be his ticket to the White House. It didn’t go as planned. That year, with the franchise...
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May 6, 2024
Nearly every weekday, while the Downtown subway is closed for repairs, I walk from the Post-Gazette’s North Shore newsroom to Smithfield Street to...
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Apr 29, 2024
It was possible to believe the 2022 election was a fluke, and that Summer Lee, aspiring member of the left-wing Squad, could never hold Pittsburgh’s...
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Apr 22, 2024
“Imagine if we do all this together — the business community, the Chamber, the philanthropic community, workers, City Council, [our] delegation...
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Apr 9, 2024
Just this week, Pittsburgh notched its lowest unemployment figures for more than five decades: 3.0% for Allegheny County and 3.2% for the region as a whole....
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Mar 29, 2024
While local and national attention has been lavished on the Democratic congressional primary between U.S. Rep. Summer Lee and Bhavini Patel, another race...
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Mar 11, 2024
Pittsburgh’s always behind the times. It’s one of the things I love about my hometown. Fashions land here years after they’ve hit New...
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Mar 4, 2024
On Oct. 8 of last year, hundreds of people gathered at the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill in support of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community,...
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Feb 13, 2024
There are two parallel realities in Pittsburgh politics. The first is the real world, where the city is being run by a mayoral administration that has...
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Jan 22, 2024
The leader of a minority party forms a coalition and wins an election that ousts the plurality party in power. He immediately fires the leadership of a...
Dec 2, 2024While I’ve lived almost my entire life in the orbit of the City of Pittsburgh, and the last decade within city limits, I’m a newcomer to studying...