David Shribman
The Globe and Mail
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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These three political intrigue novels capture the current literary moment
Political intrigue is always in season, but the early months of 2023 are a particularly rich period for novels marked by steely political calculation → Read More
American Jews are growing increasingly wary about Netanyahu’s judicial reform plan
A growing unease about Netanyahu’s planned judicial overhaul is coming to dominate discussions among the U.S. Jewish community, which has been a bedrock of support for Israel since the country’s founding → Read More
GOP members struggling to pledge support for eventual 2024 presidential nominee
Party leaders have taken steps to nudge declared and potential candidates toward pledging they will get behind the eventual nominee → Read More
In Iowa, the gentle stirring of 2024 presidential campaigns can be heard
The Iowa caucuses is where candidacies begin, and both Nikki Haley, and former vice-president Mike Pence made notable appearances in recent days → Read More
Buffalo and Pittsburgh share grief as Tree of Life trial to be held in spring
Just as the Buffalo shooting marked Black people around the U.S., the Pittsburgh shooting left scars on the Jewish community nationwide → Read More
The lack of primary activity in New Hampshire speaks volumes about Trump’s standing
The New Hampshire political scene resembles a game of Where’s Waldo? Granite State politicos, eager to attend informal gatherings and girding to fire their questions at town-hall meetings, are wondering where’s the campaign → Read More
Opinion: The Chinese spy balloon is the latest chapter in the history of high-altitude espionage and surveillance
The story created a near-hysteria in political circles if not on the ground and, in breathless cable coverage, suggested a frightening new frontier in international spycraft. But in truth, China has been sending balloons aloft for years → Read More
Biden’s State of the Union a blatant preview of his campaign for second term
Biden’s address Tuesday night was the 99th to be delivered in person, but was among the few that were unalloyed campaign stump speeches → Read More
Tyre Nichols’s death provokes deep introspection of America’s racial and cultural crises
The death of Tyre Nichols is the familiar, tragic episode: the brutal pummelling of a Black man by police officers → Read More
Opinion: On the 50th anniversary of the war’s end, the wounds of Vietnam still haven’t healed
The war was the beginning of the notion of limits in a country where opportunity, financial success, global cultural influence and geopolitical power had seemed limitless → Read More
Discovery of classified documents at Trump and Biden’s homes raises many questions
Not until recently has the issue of illegal possession of presidential documents been an issue → Read More
With Biden facing his own documents probe, power of charges against Trump substantially weakened
The unusual phenomenon of two presidents sharing the same potential crime could undermine the possibility that Mr. Trump faces legal action at all → Read More
What could the McCarthy era in the U.S. House of Representatives look like? Disarray, and maybe disaster
If Kevin McCarthy’s 15-ballot, concession-riddled, floor-brawling, after-midnight election as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives was the easy part, what could the hard part possibly look like? → Read More
Kevin McCarthy’s degrading bid for U.S. House speaker puts on stark display power of few over many
In his quest for the job of presiding over the ‘People’s House,’ McCarthy has armed his gravest critics the mere prerogative of bringing him down and thrusting the chamber into chaos → Read More
U.S. Congress impasse seems primed to go on for an infinite amount of time
The tragedy of Kevin McCarthy is that he lacks the power, the flexibility, the persuasive skills and the personal relations that many Speakers before him possessed → Read More
Kevin McCarthy’s historic rebuff is (another) sign of American political chaos
Mr. McCarthy’s decade-long quest for the speaker’s gavel disintegrated into a round-robin of concessions to unsatisfied party rebels → Read More
Kevin McCarthy ready to upend the ‘regular order’ on Capitol Hill in House speaker bid
Mr. McCarty ends 2022 with offer to allow as few as five members of the House to force vote on whether the speaker should remain in office in concession to win support from ‘rebel’ GOP lawmakers → Read More
New U.S. Congress faces many fights in new year, including McCarthy’s troubled bid for Speaker
The main event for the early days on Capitol Hill is the question of who will lead the Republicans in the House → Read More
There are serious, if not terrible, repercussions to consider in the decision to criminally charge Trump
The Jan. 6 committee did the easy part in issuing criminal referrals against Trump. The next steps are considerably more difficult → Read More
Franco Harris was a star for the Steelers, but a true giant for Pittsburgh
Southwestern Pennsylvania mourns 72-year-old Hall of Fame running back whose ‘Immaculate Reception’ is considered the most iconic play in NFL history → Read More