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 man鈥檚 wife standing nearby explained that her husband had threatened to kill himself and harm others. After fleeing the house ...
Two years this September, Greene County鈥檚 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 ...
To govern is to choose, and for presidents choices are almost always untidy, inconvenient, and fraught. But that鈥檚 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 ...
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 ...
You don鈥檛 have to be president or a leader of Congress, a governor, or the mayor of a large city to speak to the nation鈥檚 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 ...
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 ...