Amos Barshad

2 months ago | levernews.com | Amos Barshad

It’s prime-time Friday night one week before Valentine’s Day and outside of a packed bar in downtown Manhattan, two firetrucks are flanking the door. The building, thankfully, is not on fire: The bar is hosting a “Rescue Me” singles party, a dating event for people who want to meet firefighters and other first responders — including a few who’ve been ferried there by their enormous red trucks.

Jan 16, 2025 | levernews.com | Amos Barshad

It’s a bleak winter morning in Millvale, a tiny municipality just outside of Pittsburgh. As one bypasser puts it, with the frankness lovingly associated with western Pennsylvania: “What a shitty, rainy day, huh?” But inside the diner where second-term Democratic congressman Chris Deluzio is sitting, the lights are auspiciously bright.

Jan 16, 2025 | levernews.com | Amos Barshad

We sent our reporter Amos Barshad out to Western Pennsylvania on a bleak day in December to speak with Congressman Chris Deluzio about how he won reelection even as the whole state shifted right. That story, “The Democrat With The Secret Sauce,” lays out Deluzio’s winning populist message and what other Democrats can learn from it.

Nov 3, 2024 | rollingstone.com | Amos Barshad

November 4, 2024 Gregory Tapler* This article was copublished with The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. At 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct.

Nov 3, 2024 | levernews.com | Amos Barshad

This article is being copublished with Rolling Stone. At 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, with the sky still pitch black, the parking lot of the Executive Education Academy in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was unusually active. The charter school, tucked between a minor-league baseball stadium and the Lehigh River, was about to open its doors for a free pop-up medical clinic providing essential medical, dental, and vision care for people who otherwise would go without.