Parade 鈥� the magazine 鈥� 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鈥檚 all ...
In his after-action summation of last Tuesday鈥檚 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, ...
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 ...
John Fetterman's debate performance against his rival, Republican Mehmet Oz, for a seat in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday night was as bad as it gets. The lieutenant governor and former mayor of Braddock, the victim of a stroke last May, stumbled over his words so badly and so often that it was ...
Once upon a time, politics was a panoply of color, crowds, and, on occasion, good humor.Not today. Today鈥檚 politics is a grim, self-isolating business.The men and women running for high public office in the here and now are veiled by social media and TV ads from the eyeball-scrutiny of ...
Barring an appearance by the now-subpoenaed Donald Trump, the House Jan. 6 hearings are over, and what have we learned? Nothing at all, at least from the viewpoint of Trump鈥檚 most rabid followers. Like the former president himself, they deny the validity of the Jan. 6 riot.The Capitol was ...