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Trumka, labor and the Supreme Court

Two years this September, Greene CountyĢƵ Rich Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, spoke to Yale University law students in the middle of the contentious Senate fight over the elevation of Brett Kavanaugh to the high court.Unlike many others, who raked Judge Kavanaugh over the coals for an ...

Where are you, Warren G. Harding?

To govern is to choose, and for presidents choices are almost always untidy, inconvenient, and fraught. But thatĢƵ what president do: their job is to protect America, and Americans.They frequently do so reluctantly, weighing personal political costs against the national interest. And ...

Calling Joe Biden: Campaign here

The Democratic ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris could learn a thing or two from the Republican ticket of Donald Trump and Mike Pence.Last week, the vice president campaigned in Beaver and Westmoreland counties, talking with supporters and generally laying the groundwork for what ...

The wisdom of common people

You don’t have to be president or a leader of Congress, a governor, or the mayor of a large city to speak to the nationĢƵ needs right now, to give voice to our highest and best aspirations as a nation and as individuals.And as President Trump demonstrates almost daily, being in a position ...

RFK and two years on the brink

More and more 2020 is resembling 1968, a year of war, riots, and political divisions so extreme it seemed at times that the country could not survive.Like 1968, 2020 is drenched in blood and bewilderment.Of course, the particulars are different.March 1968 started with the assassination of ...

The unconventional 2020 Conventions

Our major party conventions aren’t what they used to be. That much was evident at last weekĢƵ covid-19-shaped virtual gathering of Democrats.From the goose-bump-raising presentation of the Star Spangled Banner at its opening and the travel-wishful roll call of the states on Tuesday to vivid ...