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I recently wrote about sharing American stories and the people behind our greatest achievements. I had just heard Walter Isaacson speak at the launch of the Center for the American Experience at The New School in New York, and one example stayed with me: Grumman, the Long Island company whose workers built the lunar modules […]

Throughout this election cycle, candidate after candidate has championed the growing movement of democratic socialism. It doesn’t help that this increasingly vocal movement is backed by roughly 240 Democratic Socialists of America chapters across the country — nearly two dozen of which are, unsurprisingly, in California. But the real surprise is that the state with […]

The Fifth Circuit Friday ruled illegal immigrants never formally admitted to the U.S. have no constitutional right to individualized bond hearings.

Back in 2010, I coined a term to describe a specific kind of political threat: the Insidersaurus. From its very inception in my 2010 U.S. Senate campaign ad, the term was engineered to target the corrosive reality of insider politics: the insulated class of career politicians, consultants, and political elites who operate in a vacuum […]

In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne hides a rock hammer inside a hollowed-out Bible. In Everett, Washington, school officials decided the Bible itself was the contraband. On Oct. 13, the Everett Public Schools board approved a settlement with LifeWise Academy, a privately funded, off-campus Bible program. The district agreed to pay $275,000 in attorney’s fees, […]

We have made coexistence sound far more complicated than it needs to be. We organize panels about it, argue over who qualifies to speak about it, and ask people to defend their decision to reach across a religious or cultural divide. Meanwhile, a Muslim baker learned to make babka from a Jewish woman and sent […]

Once a member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer claimed to support American workers and organized labor. This was part of the Republican effort to try to build bridges to organized labor, and appeal to working people. But unfortunately, as soon as she left her post at the Department of Labor, […]

Former Democratic Bronx Assemblyman Stephen Kaufman accuses his own party of being overtaken by socialists while rallying for Bruce Blakeman.

University of Michigan students offered over a dozen different definitions of socialism, reflecting a national confusion highlighted by Gallup polling.