PPI - Radically Pragmatic
  • Donate
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Locations
    • Gallery
    • Careers
  • People
  • Projects
  • Our Work
  • Events
  • Donate

Our Work

Rotherham for US News, “What Trump’s Playing at With Paris”

  • June 2, 2017
  • Andrew J. Rotherham

Here we go again. You can’t find a single person at Whole Foods who thinks it’s a good idea for President Donald Trump to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord! Substantively, they’re probably right. But on the politics? There, Trump is winning.

Why? Pittsburgh, not Paris. Democrats confuse the two at their political peril.

Just as with “Make America Great Again,” Trump’s “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris” is easy to mock. Here’s Vox rushing to show the world just how much smarter they are than Trump – what a fool, he didn’t even win Pittsburgh!

 Continue reading at US News.

Related Work

Op-Ed  |  October 9, 2026

Kahlenberg and Lin for Washington Monthly: Time to Teach Three Years of High School Civics

  • Richard D. Kahlenberg Lief Lin
Press Release  |  October 7, 2026

Workforce Pell Could Reach Nearly 200,000 Students, but Schools Can’t Deliver It Alone

  • Bruno Manno
Publication  |  October 7, 2026

Implementing Workforce Pell

  • Bruno Manno
Op-Ed  |  October 1, 2026

Manno for DATIA K12: The World’s Education Scorecard on Life After High School

  • Bruno Manno
Op-Ed  |  October 1, 2026

Manno for Real Clear Education: Goodbye to the One-School Student As K–12 Goes Modular

  • Bruno Manno
Op-Ed  |  September 30, 2026

Kahlenberg for The Atlantic: How the Culture War Put Public Schools at Risk

  • Richard D. Kahlenberg
  • Never miss an update:

  • Subscribe to our newsletter
PPI Logo
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Donate
  • Careers
  • © 2026 Progressive Policy Institute. All Rights Reserved.
  • |
  • Privacy Policy
  • |
  • Privacy Settings