As Halloween approaches, here鈥檚 something scary to contemplate, and unlike black cats crossing your path and cracks in the sidewalk, this is real: Donald Trump as candidate for president of the United States.As spooky is what a third Trump candidacy would do to the GOP, whose Republican, ...
The past several weeks have not been kind to Democrats, and if they are unable to pass their sweeping domestic legislative agenda, at least in some form, things could go from bad to worse.Ten months into the Biden presidency, Democrats are in a deep funk.For one thing, their poll numbers are ...
In an essay nine years ago, Eric Liu, a former White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, said that civics 鈥� as in high school history and social studies 鈥� was 鈥渦nsexy.鈥滱 real turn-off, man.Kids aren鈥檛 learning a thing, Liu maintained. Or, they鈥檙e not learning what鈥檚 both ...
On Sept. 23, 1956, 44,932 鈥渂ug-eyed鈥� fans (as Bob Prince would say) squeezed into Forbes Field, which had seating for only 34,249 of them.How the Pirates managed to accompany a crowd that was better than 10,000 overcapacity can hardly be imagined. Where did those without seats stand? How ...
It seems more and more people are acting and talking crazy. It鈥檚 pretty dangerous stuff.Example: Before a vote last week by the Uniontown Area School Board to require student mask-wearing, to help stop the spread of a variant of the COVID-19 virus, a parent told the board, 鈥淭his whole ...
Down Alabama way, a coal miners鈥� strike, now in its fourth month, echoes strikes in the coal fields of Western Pennsylvania in the 20th century.It鈥檚 eerie, and sad. Strangely, it鈥檚 also hopeful.The strike by 1,100 members of the United Mine Workers at the Warrior Met coal mine in ...