Salena Zito joined the Washington Examiner in 2016 as a Western Pennsylvania-based columnist and reporter covering national politics and culture. She is also a weekly columnist at the New York Post, contributes to The Wall Street Journal and co-authored “The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics” with Brad Todd. In 2018, she won first place for her columns in the Associated Press for her coverage of American politics, and she also won the Barbara Olson award for excellence and independence in journalism. She has taught journalism at the Harvard Institute of Politics, Washington and Lee University, and Hillsdale College. She has interviewed every president, vice president and candidate who sought their party’s nomination on both sides of the aisle in the 21st century.
By Salena Zito JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania — Two months ago, 30,000 truckers at Yellow lost their jobs when one of the nation’s oldest and largest trucking...
By Salena Zito ERIE, Pennsylvania — Two weeks ago, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman told CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour there is a peculiar disconnect between...
By Salena Zito CLAIRTON, Pennsylvania — The first steel plant located here along the Monongahela River just over 20 miles south of Pittsburgh was built...
By Salena Zito CINCINNATI — When J.D. Vance walked into the surgical technology class at Great Oaks Career Campuses, the vocational-technical students were steeling themselves...
By Salena Zito OVERLAND PARK, Kansas — Yellow Freight, one of the oldest trucking companies in America, located here in this Johnson County city, hit...