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Warning Trend: The Climate Debate Goes Southnew

Here's the problem with the global-warming debate: A society that demands quick answers isn't good at solving problems decades in the making. And the highly deliberative scientific method -- which discovered the climate-change threat -- makes it hard to convince people to do anything about it.
Pittsburgh City Paper  |  Chris Potter  |  07-27-2009  |  Commentary

The GOP is Tying to Make You Look Stupid. Don't Let Them.new

If elected, some of McCain's worst impulses would be reined in by a Democratic Congress. But a McCain victory will be a disaster anyway, because of what it will say about us.
Pittsburgh City Paper  |  Chris Potter  |  10-28-2008  |  Commentary

Pittsburgh's Recurring Night-mayornew

For two elections now, Pittsburgh "progressives" have waited impatiently for the city to catch up with their own beliefs.
Pittsburgh City Paper  |  Chris Potter  |  11-20-2007  |  Commentary

GLBT Progress is Bright Spot in a Dismal Eranew

If there's an upside to the mess we're in, it's this: We no longer have the luxury of indulging in our petty hatreds as if they were all that mattered.
Pittsburgh City Paper  |  Chris Potter  |  06-19-2007  |  Commentary

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