Every Memorial Day, I buy bunches of small American flags to place on the graves of relatives, plus some friends and acquaintances. This year I bought too many. As a result, I ventured out to Oak Grove Cemetery, just west of downtown Uniontown, a day or two after the holiday to place the ...
A not-so-secret memo from one of the dark-money, cash-happy political action committees supporting Donald Trump confirms the central role Pennsylvania is expected to play in the election for president this November. Make America Great Again Inc., which by law is prohibited from coordinating ...
Edward Achorn's "The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History," published last year, dishes the dirt on maybe the most muddled and sketchiest political convention ever, but also the most important. Achorn unspools the raucous gathering of Republican delegates in ...
The Smartless podcast recently hosted two former Democratic presidents of the United States - Bill Clinton and Barack Obama - along with President Joe Biden The hour-long program with the three presidents was not a hard hitting affair. The podcast hosts, actors Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and ...
Pennsylvania, one of the largest, most populous states in the Union, had produced one president, and by all accounts, that one president was woeful. He was James Buchanan. He was president in the lead-up to the Civil War. The knock against Buchanan, who hailed from Lancaster (where his home, ...
President Biden, campaigning in Pittsburgh last Wednesday, promised cheering steelworkers to keep U.S. Steel in American hands, despite a $14.9 billion deal on the table to sell the iconic and one-time industrial behemoth to a Japanese firm. The president's stop came on the heels of the visit ...