My immediate Pittsburgh neighbors believe we live on perhaps the loveliest block in Squirrel Hill, a street so semi-rural that it lacks sidewalks but hosts a seemingly 24-7 population of young deer. I don’t disagree, but I also know that I live in the Mon Valley, a.k.a. Steel Valley, named for the huge river—Monongahela—that allowed
What is it with today’s octogenarians and big government jobs? Time was when a public servant approached his ninth decade, he had long since given up trying to remake the world. He was happy merely to be still alive, happily sitting back enjoying the fruits of his life and work and planning nothing more ambitious
Your reaction to the following lines in The Book of Elsewhere—which is about an unkillable warrior working with the American military-industrial-scientific complex in an attempt to discover whether he can die or at least achieve mortality—will be a decent gauge for how much of the book you can accept. And what you see in the
Drop boxes opened across Michigan on Sept. 26, signaling the start of large-scale voting in the Midwestern battleground state. With only weeks to go before Election Day, it’s difficult to tell who will win. Recent polls from Emerson College and Suffolk University show Vice President Kamala Harris leading former President Donald Trump by one to
Although public focus tends to center on the presidential candidates, past VP face-offs have produced some noteworthy exchanges. On Oct. 1, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will face off in the final debate of the 2024 presidential season. Vice presidential debates are a relatively new phenomenon in American politics: the first
The White House and U.S. lawmakers praised the Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday. U.S. lawmakers and officials responded on Saturday to the death of Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime leader of the Hezbollah, in a targeted Israeli attack in a Beirut suburb. Many in Washington hailed Nasrallah’s death as a significant
‘Nasrallah was seen as a father figure, a moral compass and a political guide,’ writes WaPo Hassan Nasrallah / AP Following Hassan Nasrallah’s death at the hands of an Israeli airstrike, mainstream media outlets portrayed the now-former Hezbollah leader as an erudite “father figure,” a “moral compass,” a “savior,” and a “roly-poly figure” who “empowered”