Opinion

The campaign bus rolls through North Texas under a cloudless sky. Inside, James Talarico, the 37-year-old Democratic nominee for the United States Senate, speaks in the measured cadence of a man who once taught middle-school English and now studies to become a Presbyterian minister. He quotes Scripture. He talks about working families and the cost […]

America’s economic ambition should reach well beyond slowing price increases. We should be expanding what this country can produce and what its people can achieve. The Federal Reserve should hold interest rates steady in October while it assesses September’s increase. Before making capital more expensive again, officials must account for the businesses, homes and opportunities […]

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 […]

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, […]

Two kinds of people are rioting these days in the City of Light — Parisians and parasites. The Parisians are high school kids frustrated that there’s no money in the budget to upgrade their crumbling schools. The parasites are a toxic mix of leftists, Palestinian sympathizers, and so-called anti-fascists attaching themselves to the legitimate protesters […]

Peter King is one of America’s finest sportswriters. His passion for pro football, which was exemplified in his long-running Sports Illustrated column, “Monday Morning Quarterback,” and bestselling books such as Inside the Helmet, makes him a must-read for fans near and far. His stories about the NFL’s players, teams, owners, and personalities are vivid, descriptive, […]