Remembering the collapsed Pa. bridge Many things in my life have concerned the very bridge the nation is commenting on — the Forbes Avenue bridge — that recently collapsed in Pittsburgh. I used to cross that bridge to go to church. I crossed it in a streetcar and later in a bus. I ...
by Will Bunch For a nation that’s awakened every morning for nearly two years to a Groundhog Day of pandemic and paranoia, the scenes from Donald Trump’s latest comeback rally Saturday at a fairground in the East Texas flatlands of Conroe could certainly numb the American mind ...
by Harry Litman Many experts doubt the ultimate ability of the criminal justice system to convict Donald Trump because it’s possible he really believed he’d won the election. The argument goes this way: His conduct — trying to overturn a legitimate election — may look like ...
by Robin Abcarian Now that Devin Nunes has slunk off to the Trump-a-verse, is there anyone in Washington who is as transparently cynical, cowardly and dishonest as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the Republican shape-shifter from Central California? Here is a man who blamed ...
I have had an ongoing debate with some MetroNews Talkline listeners during the last year over how to identify the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. I quickly settled on the term “insurrection.” The Merriam-Webster definition of the word is, “An act or instance of revolting ...
by Will Bunch On Dec. 14, 2020, 20 prominent Pennsylvania Democrats gathered in Harrisburg — in a ceremony shorn of some of its pomp and circumstance because of COVID-19, but witnessed by a gaggle of reporters — to cast the state’s Electoral College votes for the ...