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End of the world as we know it, but was it all good?
Commentary, Nation World
BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
April 21, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Earlier this month, sharp declines in the stock market wiped out $5 trillion in value. Which raises the question: If $5 trillion ca...
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‘Imagine’ the decline of Carter-style Christianity
Commentary, Nation World
BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
January 13, 2025
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — WatchingJimmy Carter'sstate funeral at theEpiscopal Church'sNational CathedralinWashington, D.C., felt like viewing a portal to the...
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When I met JD Vance at a Cheesecake Factory
Commentary, Nation World
BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
July 29, 2024
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — It was November 2019, and I was driving to Cincinnati to give a speech. At the time I was a book editor for a Catholic publisher, b...
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The empire has no clothes
Commentary, Nation World
BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
July 1, 2024
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — That was a new low. Thursday’s presidential debate was a humiliating spectacle for President Joe Biden personally, and for the Unit...
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U.S. Steel was already gone
Commentary, Nation World
BRANDON McGINLEY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
December 28, 2023
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Sawdust. Horseshoes. Eggs on spoons. Water balloons. This is not an attempt at free-verse poetry. These are the images that come to...
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