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Tempering our talk, saving our country

The thing is Joe Biden doesn’t have to be Ronald Reagan – a superb politician blessed with an abundance of personal magnetism – to look good against Donald Trump.He just has to be competent. Their first (and maybe last) presidential debate showed why: the president ranted and raved, ...

Police and the misuse of force

The other day in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a police officer, speaking on the phone with a man inside his home, politely but firmly urged him to come outside. The manĢƵ wife standing nearby explained that her husband had threatened to kill himself and harm others. After fleeing the house ...

Police and the misuse of force

The other day in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a police officer, speaking on the phone with a man inside his home, politely but firmly urged him to come outside. The manĢƵ wife standing nearby explained that her husband had threatened to kill himself and harm others. After fleeing the house ...

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 ...