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Editorials and columns

Could Amazon Doom the US?

Amazon Web Services is the backbone of much of the economy and the government. AWS is a cloud computing platform that enables companies to do a number of things, such as store data and increase their computing power. Today, AWS underpins a significant portion of global internet ...

Free Speech

The Constitution's First Amendment protects free speech for good reason. If people can't say what they want, we don't have honest debate. I was relieved when Donald Trump, campaigning for the presidency, said, "If we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country!" Good ...

‘Kings Not on Their Toes Can Be Deposed’

The "No Kings" protest across the nation added up to nearly 7 million people protesting President Donald Trump's reign. Dissent is upon us, catching and spreading. Shakespeare's King Lear, King Charles I of England and King Louis XVI of France met fates that upended their eras. Two kings ...

How To Make the Americas Great Again

President Donald Trump is in a fight for the destiny of the Americas. Will Central and South America be free and aligned with the United States -- or will half the Western Hemisphere be forever plagued by cartels, communists and Chinese influence? The Cold War in Europe ended more than 30 ...

I guess I’m a chameleon

My mother is from Southwestern Pennsylvania, my dad from Pittsburgh, and my in-laws from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. When I visit these places, the first thing I recognize is the dialect. My Pittsburgh grandmother spoke in tried and true Pittsburghese. The toilet was a commode. The ...

Protecting One’s Peace

The first week of October was Mental Illness Awareness Week, a designation by Congress since 1990 in recognition of the ongoing work of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. To help bring more understanding of the seriousness of emotional challenges that many people face, the American ...