Two ethnobiologists at Penn State surveyed over 800 mushroom harvesters in the mid-Atlantic region to understand what they’re hunting and why.
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NAFTA and the decline of American community have created a new path for mayors of small and midsized cities to reach national office.
Local governments have a lot of freedom on how to spend the funds, but there’s also confusion and a feeling of moral responsibility to spend wisely after so many lives have been lost.
Horror films teach us to confront real-life trauma and atrocities, not escape from them.
Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.
The Peregrine and Nova-C landers are due to carry out valuable science at two diverse lunar locations.
Pittsburgh’s mayor renamed the city ‘Swiftsburgh’ when the singer’s tour hit town. He’s not the only politician who has publicly fawned over the star.
Art can help anchor places even as they are reshaped.
Now that the whole world is echoing Romero’s films, everyone can learn from his legacy.
While segregation was a shameful period in baseball history, the Negro Leagues were a resounding success and an immense source of pride for black America.
Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu is surprisingly muted when faced with some attacks on Jews. Here’s why…
The attack at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and the sending of pipe bombs to critics of the current administration are examples of the increase in the violence on the margins of the right.
Pittsburgh’s post-industrial economic resurgence is promising, a historian of the region writes, but there’s a reason President Trump highlighted the area in his speech exiting the Paris climate deal.
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