Magazine Issue

February 9, 2021

The kids aren’t alright
Education

The kids aren’t alright

PITTSBURGH — One year ago, Lena Carson was pulling straight A’s at the city’s Creative and Performing Arts School across the river from her parent’s home. She…

Salena Zito
Exit Toomey
Economy

Exit Toomey

When Pat Toomey was elected to represent Pennsylvania in the Senate in 2010, he hoped to rein in the federal government’s runaway spending and looming budget crisis.…

Brad Polumbo
Game canceled on account of Whitmer
Education

Game canceled on account of Whitmer

Children are the least affected by the coronavirus, but they may be the most affected by governments’ responses to the virus. Some are finally speaking up. In…

Kaylee McGhee White
To make is divine
Magazine - Life & Arts

To make is divine

Near the middle of the artist Makoto Fujimura’s most recent book, Art and Faith, we are told the story of 15th-century shogun Yoshimasa Ashikawa sending broken teaware…

Scott Beauchamp
Then and Now: Ostracism
Magazine

Then and Now: Ostracism

On Thursday, Feb. 4, the House of Representatives voted to remove Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments, 230 to 199. Greene, a first-term representative…

Grant Addison