Transcript: Sen. Tom Cotton on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Sept. 29, 2024

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Transcript: Ret. Gen. Stanley McChrystal on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Sept. 29, 2024

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FEMA administrator on N.C. flooding: “I don’t know that anybody could be fully prepared”

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said on Sunday that the “historic flooding” in North Carolina from the remnants of Hurricane Helene has gone beyond what anyone could have planned for in the area.   “I don’t know that anybody could be fully prepared for the amount of flooding and landslides that they are experiencing right now,”

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