Jonathan D. Salant
@jdsalant.bsky.social
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; member, SPJDC Journalism Hall of Fame; player-coach, Metropolitan Media Softball League; former president, Nat'l Press Club, Regional Reporters Assn. & SPJ DC chapter; Mets fan; Long Islander
This week's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column.
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Jonathan D. Salant: Labor and industry disagree, Congress doesn’t act
WASHINGTON — After a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine in February 2023, members of Congress quickly proposed legislation...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This week's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column.
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President Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene split, but both defend Tucker Carlson. www.jns.org/trump-and-ma...
Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene split, but both defend Tucker Carlson
The president called the congresswoman “Marjorie Traitor Greene” and said, “I don’t think anybody cares about her.”
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November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
President Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene split, but both defend Tucker Carlson. www.jns.org/trump-and-ma...
Rep. DeLauro: After Shutdown: Health Care Fight Isn't Over www.newhavenindependent.org/2025/11/13/d...
DeLauro After Shutdown: Health Care Fight Isn't Over - New Haven Independent
"I think the Senate should have voted no," New Haven's Congresswoman said, "but I'm not a senator."
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November 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Rep. DeLauro: After Shutdown: Health Care Fight Isn't Over www.newhavenindependent.org/2025/11/13/d...
@MikieSherrill win in NJ marks first time Dems have won three consecutive gov terms in over 60 years www.jns.org/sherrill-win...
Sherrill win in NJ marks first time Dems have won three consecutive gov terms in over 60 years
Rabbi David Levy, of the AJC, told JNS that the Jewish group looks forward to working with the governor-elect, who has been “a good partner in the work that we do.”
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November 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
@MikieSherrill win in NJ marks first time Dems have won three consecutive gov terms in over 60 years www.jns.org/sherrill-win...
Despite Jewish candidate, Annapolis mayoral race has local focus, not Israel www.jns.org/despite-jewi...
Despite Jewish candidate, Annapolis mayoral race has local focus, not Israel
GOP candidate Bobby O’Shea told JNS that he’s not taking unsolicited advice to attack his Jewish opponent on Israel, because “I am not going to stoop to that level.”
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November 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Despite Jewish candidate, Annapolis mayoral race has local focus, not Israel www.jns.org/despite-jewi...
‘No future in my office’ for Heritage Foundation, Rep. Randy Fine says at Republican Jewish Coalition confab. www.jns.org/no-future-in...
‘No future in my office’ for Heritage Foundation, Randy Fine says at RJC
“I will be calling on all of my colleagues on the Republican side to do the same,” the Jewish congressman said.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
‘No future in my office’ for Heritage Foundation, Rep. Randy Fine says at Republican Jewish Coalition confab. www.jns.org/no-future-in...
Spent the weekend at the Republican Jewish Coalition conference in Las Vegas, where antisemitism on the right was a major topic.
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‘Clearly have antisemitism element of our party,’ McCormick says at RJC
“It’s a very small minority, but we have to confront it,” the Republican senator told JNS. “It’s never in my opinion appropriate to give platform, to give license, to people who are explicitly pro-Hit...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Spent the weekend at the Republican Jewish Coalition conference in Las Vegas, where antisemitism on the right was a major topic.
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John Cleary of Pine, who survived the Kent State shootings, dies at 74 www.post-gazette.com/news/obituar...
John Cleary of Pine, who survived the Kent State shootings, dies at 74
Feb. 28, 1951 — Oct. 25, 2025
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November 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
John Cleary of Pine, who survived the Kent State shootings, dies at 74 www.post-gazette.com/news/obituar...
My latest column for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Jonathan D. Salant: 'We never thought we would live to see murder in a synagogue on a Shabbat morning'
WASHINGTON — In her new book, “Antisemitism, An American Tradition,” American University professor and historian Pamela Nadell says...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
My latest column for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
This week's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column on how C-SPAN addressed its funding issues, which is good news for the Western Pennsylvania lawmaker who is on the cable channel more days than anyone else in the U.S. House.
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Jonathan D. Salant: New funding means you'll still see a lot of Rep. Thompson on C-SPAN
WASHINGTON — The cable channel that televises every minute that the U.S. House and Senate are in session has shored up its finances, and that means...
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October 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This week's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column on how C-SPAN addressed its funding issues, which is good news for the Western Pennsylvania lawmaker who is on the cable channel more days than anyone else in the U.S. House.
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Rep. Josh Gottheimer unveils three bills related to Oct. 7.
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Gottheimer unveils three bills related to Oct. 7
“It’s hard to believe that it’s been two years,” the Jewish Democrat said outside the U.S. Capitol.
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October 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Rep. Josh Gottheimer unveils three bills related to Oct. 7.
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‘Never would have imagined,’ freed hostage says of NJ street named in his honor www.jns.org/never-would-...
‘Never would have imagined,’ freed hostage says of NJ street named in his honor
“Every time I see this road, I will remember not just the struggle but the love and unity that brought me back home,” Edan Alexander said.
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September 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
‘Never would have imagined,’ freed hostage says of NJ street named in his honor www.jns.org/never-would-...
With Shutdown Ahead, Rep. Rosa DeLauro Blames Republican-Made "Health Care Crisis" www.newhavenindependent.org/2025/09/30/d...
With Shutdown Ahead, DeLauro Blames Republican-Made "Health Care Crisis" - New Haven Independent
Congress tumbles toward federal government's midnight funding deadline.
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September 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
With Shutdown Ahead, Rep. Rosa DeLauro Blames Republican-Made "Health Care Crisis" www.newhavenindependent.org/2025/09/30/d...
This week's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column on the latest shutdown threat. I've covered every shutdown and every last-minute deal since 1987.
Jonathan D. Salant: A new script to an old play as Trump, Congress near shutdown
WASHINGTON — We’ve watched this play unfold several times before, but never like this.
Congress once again faces an imminent deadline...
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September 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This week's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column on the latest shutdown threat. I've covered every shutdown and every last-minute deal since 1987.
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“There have been some members that have received death threats,” Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Butler, told me. “I haven’t seen that in our district, but I see our district as a bit of an outlier — as the way things used to be.” www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... @post-gazette.com
Pa. state, federal officials on high alert after Kirk assassination
Pennsylvania state and federal officials are on high alert and working with local law enforcement to bolster security in the aftermath of conservative...
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September 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
“There have been some members that have received death threats,” Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Butler, told me. “I haven’t seen that in our district, but I see our district as a bit of an outlier — as the way things used to be.” www.post-gazette.com/news/politic... @post-gazette.com
Some House Democrats want investigation of killings of Palestinian Americans by the IDF or Israeli settlers. www.jns.org/house-dems-p...
House Dems push to investigate deaths of Palestinian Americans by IDF, settlers
They say that requests for such probes have been ignored by previous administrations, and that the policy is continuing under U.S. President Donald Trump.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Some House Democrats want investigation of killings of Palestinian Americans by the IDF or Israeli settlers. www.jns.org/house-dems-p...
Rep. Rosa DeLauro reacts to Trump's latest effort to impound congressionally enacted funding.
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DeLauro: This Is Theft, Not A “Pocket Rescission”
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s efforts to impound $4.9 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid drew condemnation Friday from U.S. Rep. Rosa…
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August 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Rep. Rosa DeLauro reacts to Trump's latest effort to impound congressionally enacted funding.
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My latest column for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette follows up on my earlier story on civil rights. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
Jonathan D. Salant: Black leaders push back against Trump's civil rights policies
WASHINGTON —
As they see their hard-won civil rights being rolled back by President Donald Trump, Black leaders and organizations say they are preparing...
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August 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My latest column for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette follows up on my earlier story on civil rights. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...
George Soros has been a Republican bogeyman for years, and independent experts say the attacks mainstream the stereotype of the all-powerful Jew pulling the world’s strings.
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Who is George Soros, and why is he an issue in Western Pa.?
Republican attacks on Jewish investor George Soros are getting more scrutiny as antisemitism rises in the U.S.
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August 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
George Soros has been a Republican bogeyman for years, and independent experts say the attacks mainstream the stereotype of the all-powerful Jew pulling the world’s strings.
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When I was inducted into the SPJDC Journalism Hall of Fame, Cory Booker mentioned how I grew up watching civil rights protesters on TV or reading about them on page 1. I talked to Booker, Sen. Warnock, Reps. Nikema Williams and Al Green, and others.
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Jonathan D. Salant: Trump is forcing Americans to re-fight the civil rights battles of the 1960s
WASHINGTON — Turn on the evening news six decades ago, and quite often the top story was the latest effort by Black Americans to abolish Jim Crow....
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August 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
When I was inducted into the SPJDC Journalism Hall of Fame, Cory Booker mentioned how I grew up watching civil rights protesters on TV or reading about them on page 1. I talked to Booker, Sen. Warnock, Reps. Nikema Williams and Al Green, and others.
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A U.S. invasion of Canada was once on the drawing board. This week's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column.
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Jonathan D. Salant: A U.S. invasion of Canada was once on the drawing board
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s talk about Canada becoming the 51st state isn’t the first time the U.S. has cast covetous eye on...
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August 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A U.S. invasion of Canada was once on the drawing board. This week's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column.
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Push and pull of American Jewish voters and Israel tells part of political story www.jns.org/push-and-pul...
Push and pull of American Jewish voters and Israel tells part of political story
“We would characterize the presidential vote preferences of Jewish voters in the last few elections as largely consistent,” Hannah Hartig, a senior researcher at the Pew center, told JNS.
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August 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Push and pull of American Jewish voters and Israel tells part of political story www.jns.org/push-and-pul...
NJ Chabad rabbi, family escape fire that destroys synagogue and Torahs www.jns.org/nj-chabad-ra...
NJ Chabad rabbi, family escape fire that destroys synagogue and Torahs
The family’s escape was a “true miracle,” the Chabad stated. “But they lost everything: their home, their belongings and the heart of their community.”
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August 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
NJ Chabad rabbi, family escape fire that destroys synagogue and Torahs www.jns.org/nj-chabad-ra...