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What it took to put Americans on the moon

I recently wrote about sharing American stories and the people behind our greatest achievements. I had just heard Walter Isaacson speak at the launch...

Florida cannot afford to give socialism a chance

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...

Is Trump’s new swamp any better than the old swamp?

Back in 2010, I coined a term to describe a specific kind of political threat: the Insidersaurus. From its very inception in my 2010...

Salvation lies within a sealed envelope

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...

Trump’s labor chief betrayed you for Mexican beer. Now, expect a Democratic midterm blowout

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...

What a Muslim baker and a Jewish recipe can teach us about coexistence

We have made coexistence sound far more complicated than it needs to be. We organize panels about it, argue over who qualifies to speak...

For Europe to survive, it must go back to church

Two kinds of people are rioting these days in the City of Light — Parisians and parasites. The Parisians are high school kids frustrated that...

If you love the NFL, read Peter King’s ‘The Game’

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...

‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson offers a new essay collection

Emily Wilson is a woman of twists and turns. The University of Pennsylvania classicist is perhaps most famous for being the first woman to...

Edward Hopper, flaws and all, sketched in new biography

The American artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) was the strong, silent type. He considered himself a hermit and a loner. But he had a strong,...
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