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My advice for Republicans

Donald Trump is running for president – again.In case you hadn’t noticed, he never stopped running for president. Even when he was president.I’d like to take this time to offer a few words of advice to any Republican candidate who plans to follow Trump’s MAGA playbook.Go right ...

Last press run for Parade in print

Parade – the magazine – has been a delight for generations of newspaper readers. The Sunday supplement, around since 1941, is colorful, concise, and cleverly packaged.Alas, the print edition of Parade is no more. Starting this week you may peruse a digital edition of the magazine.It’s all ...

‘Red Wave’ meets a blue wall

Hardly anybody expected last Tuesday’s results.Democrats were ready to run for political cover. All of that talk about a “Red Wave” darkening their role in Congress appeared to be a foregone conclusion.Many Republicans were already chilling champagne for a joyous night of ...

Parties need to reform themselves

In his after-action summation of last Tuesday’s election, conservative Henry Olson concluded Republicans have to do better with suburban voters, like the ones in the neighborhoods outside of Philadelphia who backed Democrat John Fetterman in his Senate race against Mehmet Oz.Likewise, ...

Let’s all vote, then wait for the recounts

It’s time to vote.It’s also time to claim there’s voter fraud everywhere.Lots of Republicans are ready to pounce on election officials from coast-to-coast.They’ll see victory where it isn’t – thanks to Donald Trump.According to FiveThirtyEight.com, of the nation’s 552 Republican ...

The dark cloud of political violence

In the early Obama years, I covered Tea Party rallies for my newspaper at the time, the Tribune-Review. The rallies at an abandoned air strip in Westmoreland County were a brew of the utterly mundane and the entirely outrageous.The featured speakers, like former Pennsylvania senator Rich ...