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EDITORIALS


Police and race: Obama should appoint a presidential commission

Americans, black and white, have been stirred by recent fatal confrontations between citizens and police.


For these rivers: Pittsburgh’s waterfronts are losing a champion

At the helm of Riverlife for most of its years has been Lisa Schroeder, its president and CEO, who is leaving for a job in Baltimore.



 The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether threats made on social media are protected as free speech.

Facebook fear: Death threats are no less frightening online

The U.S. Supreme Court must decide if threats made on social media are protected as free speech under the First Amendment.



A ride to work: The county joins the state on job-saving transit

Van services that supplement the Port Authority transit system will be able to continue for another year.



Libya deteriorates: The post-Gadhafi era is fraught with chaos

Growing violence and destruction have marked Libya’s collapse as a nation since the U.S. intervened in 2011.


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David Shribman



David M. Shribman: The colors of politics

Democrats face a black-and-white choice for 2016; Republicans a multitude of hues


 

Tony Norman



Tony Norman: Grand jury system tainted by police bias

It’s time to have something more objective than grand juries to review alleged police abuse.


 

Sally Kalson



Health care sabotage 101

The GOP, not a botched website, is the real obstacle.


 

Dan Simpson



Dan Simpson / Bad news from Africa

And one of the continent’s problems is that the United States isn’t helping much.


 

Ruth Ann Dailey



Ruth Ann Dailey: A prayer for Ferguson, U.S.A.

In Ferguson, we know that the two main characters in this tragedy are flawed humans — making them more or less like the rest of us.


 

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