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Wright, Pittsburgh and Fallingwater

The greatest living architect poured scorn on the idea. Frank Lloyd Wright, famous in these parts (and elsewhere for that matter) for Fallingwater, his iconoclastic residential design set off in the woods of Fayette County, criticized the notion of saving the Pittsburgh "Triangle," as he put ...

A hope for tolerance at Christmas

The idea that the past has something to teach us is time-worn: we say it, but do we really mean it? Mostly, the answer is no. However, this particular moment in our national history may be, could be, the exception. If it happened once, it can happen again. Fingers crossed. Eleanor Roosevelt, ...

Biden’s political problems are acute

Not only is President Joe Biden tied, or even behind, Donald Trump in some recent public opinion polling, but he has two severe foreign policy crises at a time when his public focus should be on framing his domestic agenda as well his prospective election opponent as a mortal enemy to American ...

The rabbit hole of commie fixation

"I am not a communist," pleaded an obscure coal miner by the name of John Cassol, who went on to ask a high-up union official to please try to save his livelihood. "I was always a good union man.... My job means a lot to me. I have a large family." Another miner, caught in the same dragnet, ...

Here’s why I voted for Scott Dunn

Politics are complicated, which helps explain my split-ticket vote last Tuesday for Scott Dunn, a Republican incumbent Fayette County commissioner. TuesdayÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ vote certified that Dunn will return to his office at the courthouse, joining two other holdovers, fellow Republican Dave Lohr and ...

Warding off the danger to democracy

Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke often about the importance of history in the context of securing AmericanÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ democratic future.Just months before the U.S. entered World War II in 1941, at the dedication of the presidential library that bears his name at his home in Hyde Park, N.Y., FDR said, “A ...