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Dec 2, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Ruth Ann Dailey |Vanni Cappelli
The election of Donald Trump is an American tragedy in three acts. The first, and the most historically and spiritually significant, is the triumph of Trump populism, which has morphed into the new American fascism. Not just authoritarianism, but fascism. The word has a specific meaning and history. But I boil it down this way: It means strong man, one-man, rule and the suspension of civil liberties and the rule of law. It means citizens turned to a mob in the grip of an ideology.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Ruth Ann Dailey |Jennifer Pahlka
The Congressional Review Act deserves your attention. Despite being on the books for decades, it’s only been used on a few occasions. That’s a shame. Though not among the original checks and balances, the CRA reinforces Congress’s role as the primary lawmaker by giving the House and Senate a chance to reject major agency rules. If used more frequently, concerns about too many regulations, and flawed regulations, might diminish.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
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The men who devoted their careers to bringing down Al Capone believed him to be guilty of many horrible deeds. As the head of a violent Chicago gang, he bootlegged through the Prohibition and ordered a dozen or so murders through his brief crime-boss tenure. After the Valentine’s Day massacre, a Chicago newspaper owner contacted his friend President Herbert Hoover to request the federal government’s help, and a multi-pronged effort ensued.
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May 29, 2024 | 
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History is written by the winners, they say, but for far too long, despite the outcome of the Civil War, large segments of America’s story continued, perplexingly, to be written by segregationists. Even when our nation finally summoned enough moral will to begin overturning racist customs and practices, addressing the sad consequences of the past has taken decades. It isn’t over yet.
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May 23, 2024 | 
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Joe Biden waded carefully into the moral quagmire Sunday at Morehouse College, Martin Luther King Jr.’s alma mater. The president’s selection months ago as commencement speaker at the historically Black, all-male college had prompted some protests from groups unhappy with his stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict, and on Sunday a few graduates and one faculty member reportedly sat with their backs turned to him during his speech.
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May 15, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Ruth Ann Dailey
Long before moving to Pittsburgh, a friend of mine spent his early adulthood in Chicago, immersed in 1960s protests, politics and community activism. I met him when he moved here, in what turned out to be the last decade of his life, to launch a nonprofit development project around his love of music.
