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Lori Falce Columns

How a movie star made people want to be journalists

Finding a solution to political violence is science fiction
Who wants to be a Powerball billionaire?
26 years of thoughts and prayers
Museums must be honest repositories of history
Why do ICE officers need masks?
Texas redistricting rips up the rules
Trump's interest in interest rates
The difference between debate and argument
Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and the unexpected consequences of encouraging supporters
The lessons of Abraham Lincoln and a house divided
UPMC decision slams door on trans youths
Lee's words about Minnesota victims must be remembered
Los Angeles confrontations are becoming less about immigration than First Amendment
The bromance is over
Aaron Rodgers and the politics of playing games
Due process, habeas corpus and the burden of American jurisprudence
The endangerment of the rule of law
Let them have dolls
No excuse for Kennedy's lack of understanding autism
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Joseph Sabino Mistick Columns

Free speech, voting and finding our way back

Partnership key for Pittsburgh's Renaissance III
Trump shows he's no fan of fair fights
Taking a bite out of justice
Pittsburgh steel families built a nation
Moreno the underdog candidate for Pittsburgh mayor
Local radio stations show how to fight back in tough times
Cruelty the theme of Trump administration
A good turn and a bad one from McCormick
Joseph Sabino Misick: Competitive authoritarianism trickling in
Eradicating hate is a worthy cause
In NY, another wild-card candidate challenges status quo
The American flag belongs to all of us
Ike knew a thing or two about real leadership
Bloomfield gym saving lives for 40 years
America’s coming brain drain
Corey O'Connor must get ready to work
Pittsburgh picks a mayor
Pittsburgh needs its bridges
Let's make it easier, not harder, to raise our children
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Paul Kengor Columns

Baseball Karen and ballpark vulgarity

Pittsburgh scores a big win — Dr. John Byrd
100 years ago, when the KKK was dominant in Western Pa.
A nation of slobs
Trump assassination tragedy still on minds of many
Route 30 traffic danger
Our nation's founding, an American miracle
The silliness of 'No Kings'
Trump’s big deal for steelworkers
The 'least American' but 'very American' pope
Ruining America’s national pastime
The pope of surprises
Trump’s trade policies creating chaos and political realignment
The ACLU’s religious ignorance
Slow down and move over for tow-truck drivers
Is Trump the next Neville Chamberlain?
Hey, Travis and Taylor — get married
A new Donald Trump?
A big inauguration with a big deadline
My Top 5 Most Astonishing Political Moments of 2024
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Colin McNickle Columns

International passenger and cost red flags at PIT

A dubious expanded Pittsburgh sick-leave policy
The job growth question of AI
Pittsburgh’s Downtown office malaise continues
A misguided proposal to redirect liquor tax revenue
Again, PRT, first help thyself
How Pa. can best support the AI revolution
Calculating those NFL Draft economic benefits
Five things Pittsburgh’s next mayor must do
PRT must help save itself
The problem with Pittsburgh’s ‘Esplanade’ project
A better way to bolster the property tax rolls
The problem with subsidizing airlines
PPS’ continuing chronic absenteeism crisis
How to pare Allegheny County’s next budget
Questioning Downtown Pittsburgh’s redevelopment plan
Right-sizing Pittsburgh Public Schools
Allegheny County can, and must, pare its budget
Challenges abound converting offices to residential
An unflattering portrait of Pittsburgh
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Jonah Goldberg Columns

Trump now has the NRA standing up for trans rights

What makes Trump’s power grab different?
Republicans won't let hypocrisy get in the way of a little tyranny
Trump's overtures to Putin have gained us nothing and cost the Ukrainians dearly
Tariff 'Mission Accomplished' hype is just that
Kamala Harris won't cure what ails the Democratic Party
Why MAGA's ideologues can't always get what they want
Stephen Colbert’s swan song is zeitgeist moment
Yes, Mr. President, they’re still talking about Jeffrey Epstein
Elon Musk's America Party is a long shot
Is bombing Iran deja vu all over again?
Maybe the latest Democratic disarray means they're coming to their senses
Trump deploys, protesters respond. This will not end well.
Trump shows that loyalty is all that matters to him
Baby boom, baby bust and the 'Big Beautiful Bill'
History alone should have made more reporters skeptical about Biden’s health
The inescapable answer to America's problems? Fix Congress
Trump's right ends, wrong means
Trump’s economic philosophy that only a leftist could love
Goldberg: Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia a criminal? Great question.
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Editor's Picks

Mayor Ed Gainey shares favorite Pittsburgh food joints

Q&A: Felly on moving toward indie rock from hip hop ahead of Pittsburgh show 
It's a luck o' the Irish tailgate for the Steelers
After two big weekends, the North American box office takes a hit
TV Talk: Scuzzy ‘Lowdown’ surprises with plot twists, kooky characters 
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S.E. Cupp Columns

In NYC, Zohran Mamdani makes politics fun

Kirk assassination shows that America is broken
It’s Trump against America and Americans now
Cracker Barrel’s total surrender to the attack
Trump wrecks the crucial U.S.-Canada partnership
Trump BLS pick is partisan, unqualified and MAGA
To Trump, ‘truth’ is only what he wants it be
The Democratic Party has to grow up and go young
Cupp's anti-Trump campaign
We are obsessed with Coldplay’s kiss cam couple
Sorry, Jeffrey Epstein isn’t going to destroy MAGA
Trump the pirate demands tribute from the media
Where is the truth on Iran?
Loyalty to Donald Trump overrides basic decency
Democrats, Gavin Newsom is not your blueprint
Trump just can’t deliver on any of his promises
Musk’s rise and fall was pitiful and predictable
Trump and the GOP have abandoned conservatism
Dems still hiding from Biden cover-up
The Democrats must start running now for 2028
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Gary Franks Columns

Gary Franks: Black history and the Holocaust

Gary Franks: Biden and Trump pardons overshadow Inauguration Day
Gary Franks: The return of Donald J. Trump
Gary Franks: This is not your ‘Leave it to Beaver’ America
Gary Franks: Those we lost in 2024 — a governor, senator and congresswoman
Gary Franks: Lincoln's pardon and Trump's victory
Gary Franks: Sports superstars should help make America better
Gary Franks: Pardon me, Mr. President
Gary Franks: Hispanic Americans and Black men got the message, contributing to Trump’s victory
Gary Franks: Is it 1968 all over again, and will the results be the same?
Gary Franks: Identity politics — Bad for America, but good for Democrats
Gary Franks: If not mentally fit, Biden must go now
Gary Franks: For now it’s Kamala Harris
Gary Franks: For Trump – God is good… Trump’s work is clearly not finished
Gary Franks: Biden helps Trump increase his lead
Gary Franks: Trump’s best choices for VP
Gary Franks: Recalling Biden vote to support a sitting president guilty of a felony
Gary Franks: A June presidential debate? Johnson, Carter, 1968 hold answers
Gary Franks: And the Oscar goes to … DEI participants
Gary Franks: Having student loan debt is almost like being a sharecropper — really!
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