Attorney General William Barr will be questioned Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee about the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller examining Russia’s interference in our 2016 presidential election and about how Barr released of information dealing with the report. Democrats are eager to get answers. One topic...
Last year, on Halloween just before midnight, Frank Leasure left work at American Standard in Salem, Ohio. To get to his car in the employee lot, he had to walk across two sets of Norfolk Southern railroad tracks. He waited in frigid, driving rain for...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bernie Sanders, castigator of the one percent, is a millionaire now. So are Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren. Big whoop. There’s a crucial difference between these candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination and the super wealthy – particularly 60 gigantic, massively profitable U.S....
The moniker “steelworker” generally evokes images of hulking mill buildings, steel-toed boots, and molten metal, not ivory towers, doctoral dissertations, and university research. But next week, 2,000 graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh will vote on whether to become members of the United Steelworkers...
Alison McIntosh learned early that life is a little easier with help from friends. Her first professional job reinforced that notion. And now, as a University of Pittsburgh graduate student, she is asking her co-workers to embrace collectivism. McIntosh, who is working toward a Ph.D. in...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s latest comments seeming to belittle Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are yet another illustration of the big differences between the two high-profile Democratic lawmakers. While Pelosi is a practical politician looking to pass legislation that can become law, Ocasio- Cortez seems more interested in advocating revolutionary changes that...
This week, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, a Republican, announced that his predecessor, Jeff Sessions, just hadn’t gone far enough when he asked a federal judge to kill the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions—that is, stuff like asthma, diabetes and...
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s nearly two-year investigation is finally over. But President Trump’s troubles aren’t. According to a four-page summary of the Mueller report – issued Sunday by Attorney General William Barr as a letter to members of Congress – Mueller confirmed previous intelligence community findings that Russia interfered...
Question: Can Beto O’Rourke deliver for the Democrats? Answer: It depends on who you ask. Beto O’Rourke, whose real name is Robert Francis O’Rourke, is an American businessman and a politician. He’s a member of the Democratic party and for three terms, represented Texas’s 16th congressional district in the...
I’m a Democrat. I want my party to win the 2020 presidential election and make Donald Trump a one-term president, but I do feel my party needs to hit the ‘pause’ button on impeachment. Just this week, in an interview with the Washington Post, House Speaker...