Brandon McGinley

Ten months ago, I wrote that Mayor Ed Gainey is likely to be re-elected in next spring’s Democratic primary, unless District Attorney Stephen A....

About 25 years ago, my family was vacationing in New Jersey, and my dad and I went golfing. On the way to the course, the car started acting up —...

After Tuesday, there is no going back. Any attempt to recreate the political norms and coalitions of the pre-Trump era will fail. It is now clear that...

I didn’t think I’d be writing this column two years ago, when Trump-endorsed candidates bombed across the country in the midterm elections....

It’s the suburban resident’s nightmare scenario, and it happened in Moon this week. A periodically unhoused person migrates to the suburbs...

CHARLEROI, Pa. — I ran my fingers over the words etched in the cornerstone of this granite building, probably once a bank or an insurer or something...

The Oliver Miller Homestead is one of the great hidden gems of the Pittsburgh region. Located just off Corrigan Drive within South Park, the living-history...

I shouldn’t have been surprised at the news that Pirates general manager Ben Cherington expected skipper Derek Shelton to return next year. Mediocre...

In Philadelphia on Aug. 6, an enormous crowd of supporters exulted in the announcement of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as Vice President Kamala Harris’s...

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, but I was nurturing a...