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DONEGAL, Pennsylvania—It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You’re hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere...



“The stakes couldn’t be higher,” Jay Jones, the Virginia Democrat running for state attorney general, said Monday in an X post. It was an...




BALDWIN, Pennsylvania—Collin Arthrell sat at a table filled with young people at a luncheon in a middle-class suburban Pittsburgh borough, dressed...









WINCHESTER, Virginia—The one thing that has been consistent in covering Virginia’s off-year statewide elections since as far back as the year...




The sign outside the little Baptist congregation in Sewickley read simply: “In Memory of Charlie Kirk 1993-2025.” It was one of dozens of images...





PITTSBURGH—If you were looking for young people distraught over Sept. 10’s brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk here, you were looking in the...











SAVANNAH, Georgia—Tyler Merritt understands the power of community, belonging, and purpose. It’s what drew him toward the military as a high...




SPRINGFIELD, Illinois — In casual conversations with Democrats in August from across the Midwest, I found that their biggest frustration with the...

ERIE, Pennsylvania—Few outside of those who live there understand what the county of Erie’s future holds for its economic future. Is it rural? A...






CLAIRTON, Pennsylvania—Richard Lattanzi started his morning on Aug. 11 getting ready to take his father to his doctor’s appointment at Jefferson...


“The Rabbit Club,” the newest novel from Christopher Yates, America’s finest writer of thrillers, weaves a tale nearly impossible to put down....

