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<title><![CDATA[Salena Zito - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14906.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Salena Zito]]></description><category domain="14906">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Steve Witkoff Keeps the Light On]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4755159/steve-witkoff-marc-fogel-reunion-russia-prisoner-exchange/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Steve Witkoff reunites with freed teacher Marc Fogel, reflecting on loss, diplomacy, and bringing prisoners and hostages home.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Night Linden Avenue Stopped Feeling Safe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4744984/when-linden-avenue-stopped-feeling-safe/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A tiny community in Edgewood, Pennsylvania, has been shocked by a horrific home invasion and murder.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shippingport's Data Hub Rises in the Age of AI Anxiety]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/09/22/shippingports_data_hub_rises_in_the_age_of_ai_anxiety_154523.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[SHIPPINGPORT, Pa. -- The last time that I stood on these grounds along the Ohio River in Beaver County was 1976, 19 years after the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States opened here.
My Perry High School physics teacher, David Burrows, had loaded a handful of us into...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Pennsylvania Field Whispers the Names of the Fallen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4722756/pennsylvania-field-whispers-names-of-the-fallen-911-anniversary/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A plot of Pennsylvania farmland has transformed into a living sanctuary honoring the souls lost in the Flight 93 crash 25 years ago today.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Kindergarten Drop-Off That Saved Howard Lutnick]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4718607/kindergarten-drop-off-saved-howard-lutnick-9-11/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Five floors above the crash zone, on 101 through 105, sat the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' New York'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' headquarters of Cantor Fitzgerald, the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s dominant bond-trading firm. Of the 960 people the company employed in the city, 658 were at their desks that morning. None of them made it out.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[1,800 Tradespeople Powering PA Data Innovation Campus]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4713636/1800-local-tradespeople-powering-pennsylvania-ultimate-energy-data-innovation-campus/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Homer City Generation announced Friday morning that more than 1,800 direct-hire tradespeople and skilled contractors are currently working at the site.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Aaron Rodgers, It Was Never Only Football]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/09/02/aaron-rodgers-reflects-his-last-nfl-season-with-pittsburgh-steelers/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The retiring Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback talks football, fatherhood and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the next chapter.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Faith Rising as Americans Seek Peace and Purpose]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4708374/faith-rising-worship-pittsburgh-sanctuary-church/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Faith in America is still discussed in categories of decline and partisanship. But the people wading into the Allegheny aren't voting with a party ballot.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How a PA Loss Became Dems' Blueprint in Trump Country]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4696652/losing-campaign-pennsylvania-became-blueprint-democratic-upset-trump-country/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats turned a Blair County loss into the blueprint for a stunning special-election upset in deep-red Butler County.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Generations of Landlocked Appalachians Keep Coming Back to Erie]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/08/18/why_generations_of_landlocked_appalachians_keep_coming_back_to_erie_154419.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ERIE, Pennsylvania -- Long before the furthest-left corner of the Commonwealth began welcoming millions of sunbathers, Presque Isle State Park served as a critical shield for a young nation.
During the War of 1812, the peninsula's natural, 5.8-square-mile harbor provided the perfect...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Dems Flip the House? Look to 4 Pennsylvania Districts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/12/four-pennsylvania-districts-could-flip-house-2026-midterms/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every four years, Pennsylvania plays a critical role in deciding who sits in the Oval Office. This year, in the same diners, farm fields, suburbs, union halls and front porches, the state may also decide who runs the House of Representatives.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reclaiming the Middle: Chautauqua's Slow Push Toward Balance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/08/11/reclaiming_the_middle_chautauquas_slow_push_toward_balance_154403.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CHAUTAUQUA, New York -- The road here feels like one of those places that America keeps tucked away on purpose -- the kind that you don't stumble into by accident. You come in from the hills and hollows and farm country, past the modest storefronts and weathered porches, and then the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Leftists in Pittsburgh Became an Early Alarm Bell]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4668215/pittsburgh-early-alarm-bell-dsa-rise/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pittsburgh was a proving ground the Democratic Socialists of America's strategy to take over.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside Meta's Bet on the Dignity of Work]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/07/28/inside_metas_bet_on_the_dignity_of_work_154375.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana -- Until recently, Lanyia Brooks worked as a custodian in a data center, where she spent her days maintaining the facility while watching tech professionals build the infrastructure around her.
Brooks said that perspective changed completely when a data center...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reigniting the American Dream: A Massive Manufacturing Push in Pennsylvania]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/07/21/reigniting_the_american_dream_a_massive_manufacturing_push_in_pennsylvania_154352.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CARLISLE, Pennsylvania -- Jamie Dimon sat on the stage with President Donald Trump, Sen. David McCormick (R-Pa.), Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll and investors. The CEO of JPMorgan Chase looked out at an auditorium filled with more than 1,500 people...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Massive Manufacturing Push Unveiled in Pennsylvania]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4652360/trump-dave-mccormick-jamie-dimon-manufacturing-push-pennsylvania/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jamie Dimon sat on the stage with President'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump, Sen.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' David McCormick'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' (R-PA), Secretary of War'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll, and investors. The CEO of JPMorgan Chase looked out at an auditorium filled with more than 1,500 people attending the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[VP Vance on Faith, Fatherhood and Forgiveness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4644716/jd-vance-faith-fatherhood-forgiveness/#google_vignette</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Salena Zito interviewed Vice President JD Vance about his new book, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Big Boy No. 4014 Sparks a Nationwide Reunion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4643803/big-boy-no-4014-sparks-nationwide-reunion/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The steam engine reminds an anxious nation that the sweat, ambition, and community that originally built America never truly went away.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Young Washington: History's Ultimate Gritty Origin Story]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4637825/young-washington-history-ultimate-gritty-origin-story/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new film Young Washington depicts our nation's Founding Father not as a man made from marble, but as a human capable of both mistakes and greatness.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Mike Rowe's 'Build Freedom' Aims to Restore the Dignity of American Work]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/07/07/how_mike_rowes_build_freedom_aims_to_restore_the_dignity_of_american_work_154309.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you stand on the banks of the Monongahela River just south of Pittsburgh, you can still hear the echoes of an America that used to build things. It is a quiet testament to a bygone era, the kind of place where the skeletal remains of old factories, once giant sentinels along the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A 264-Year-Old George Washington Mystery Solved]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2026/07/01/historic-highway-traces-george-washington-ai-hub/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A military trail transforms into a highway of American progress.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Spirit of '76 Lives, PA Rallies for Great American State Fair]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4629095/pennsylvania-rallies-great-american-state-fair/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After Gov. Josh Shapiro claimed there was no interest in participating in the Great American State Fair, Pennsylvanians proved him wrong.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[From Rust Belt to 'Money Belt': Trump Sees PA Reinvention]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4623094/trump-pennsylvania-economic-reinvention-money-belt/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner, President Donald Trump highlighted significant economic changes in Pennsylvania.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ghost of Alexis de Tocqueville Returns -- What America Can Learn From Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/23/ghost_of_alexis_de_tocqueville_returns_--_what_america_can_learn_from_him_154255.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LUZERNE COUNTY, Pennsylvania -- Over the Flag Day weekend in Pennsylvania, crowds gathered, and communities were formed in the most unlikely of places, under viaducts, along gravel-filled tracks and at the base of some impressive Appalachian mountains, all just to watch as Union...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Foundry for the Future: The Silicon Valley of Appalachia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4619329/carnegie-mellon-robotics-innovation-center-pittsburgh-silicon-valley-appalachia/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The familiar hum of a coal barge pushing the region'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s black gold up the Monongahela River holds the same low rumble it did a century ago, softly echoing through the valley towns where steel once defined the American identity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Workforce Academy's Mission to Fill the Workforce Gap]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/16/americas_workforce_academys_mission_to_fill_the_workforce_gap_154227.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mike Rowe has been on a lonely mission. For two decades, he has been raising the alarm.
Rowe has been warning anyone who would listen that our skills gap in the trades was widening to a chasm so large that the economic effect on U.S. manufacturing companies, in particular auto and steel...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ghost of de Tocqueville Returns. What U.S. Can Learn]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4609124/what-america-can-learn-alexis-de-tocqueville-world-cup/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Soccer fans are the inheritors of a long tradition of Europeans expressing shock and admiration for American customs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Promises Kept: Anniversary of Deal That Saved U.S. Steel]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4603890/howard-lutnick-anniversary-deal-saved-us-steel/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In American politics, when negotiating hard deals that involve high risk and the livelihoods of all involved while requiring great compromise, pain is usually shared unequally.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Workforce Gap: 'It's Only a Matter of National Security']]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/4602738/national-security-workforce-academy-mission-fill-workforce-gap/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame and Dina Powell McCormick of Meta are teaming up in an effort to bridge the chasm in the U.S.'s growing workforce gap.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Railway Safety Act Is Finally Advancing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4579655/chris-deluzio-railway-safety-act-boost-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Salena Zito</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More than three years after a train derailment forever changed life for Ohio and Pennsylvania citizens, the Railway Safety Act is finally advancing.]]></description>
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