The Decline of the Rust Belt and the Loss of Community

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

Prognosis Negative

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

Immortal Combat

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

Voters in Battleground Michigan Split Over Trump, Harris

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

5 Memorable Vice Presidential Debates In US History

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