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The UMWA-Manchin grand bargain

A United Mine Workers of America convention could fill Heinz Field with all of the folks working in the coal industry in 2021 and still have plenty of seats left over.The capacity of the Steelers’ stadium is 68,400. There are some 44,000 men and women drawing coal-related paychecks. According ...

Thank goodness for the historians

Thank goodness for Margaret Leech.For as Sean Wilentz, one of the countryĢƵ great academic historians, has written, “When describing history, more is at stake than the past.”Past, present, and future is more like it. How aware would we moderns be, and how significant would we view it, had ...

The beating heart of the Civil War

It was a Sunday in April, a church service in Brownsville. The pastor, Presbyterian minister R.M. Wallace, told his congregants, “It is the duty of all citizens to aid the constitutional authorities in maintaining the supremacy of the Constitution and the laws.“The national government,” ...

The return of Jim Crow?

We live in a world where new ideas should be applauded.The good ones.In Georgia, though, thereĢƵ a new idea thatĢƵ become a nationwide head-scratcher. Deservedly so.You can’t hand any refreshments to a person standing in line at a polling place.ThatĢƵ illegal now in Georgia.Who was the ...

Step up, lawmakers, it’s time to tell the truth

Republican lawmakers who publicly refute the 2020 election results that placed Joe Biden in the White House have some explaining to do if they are to be taken seriously and, more importantly, if they are to save the experiment of American democracy.Democracy requires truth-telling. It operates ...

Scout beating bushes for talent finds a dad

The past year has not been a good year for the country, as we know. It was equally horrific for baseball, which, beginning last April, lost nine all-time greats, including the incomparable Henry Aaron.Eight of the nine were players. One, Tommy Lasorda, was inducted into the Hall of Fame as a ...