Opinion

Inside sleeve of "Proud Pumpkin" book.

More than a page: How a simple story can shape a childhood

Salena Zito · October 29, 2026 4:07 pm

Pete Hegseth salutes and looks ahead with conviction with people around him.

Hegseth firing Sylvia isn’t office politics — he smoked out a wartime mole

Republican candidate Mike Rogers's campaign office.

Why Detroit holds the key to Michigan’s Senate seat

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Code name ‘Zane,’ secret flights, and a decoy: The DSCC’s Alaska shadow campaign

A ninth grader places her cellphone in to a phone holder.

Children deserve phone-free classrooms

Snapchat has added additional options for parents through its Family Center, allowing them to keep a closer eye on their children's posting conduct.

57 men in a Cornell group chat. Zero courage at 1:42 am

Eric Hogue October 11, 2026 7:00 am

social media smartphones mental health

Let’s learn from the younger generation on ditching smartphones

Rob Long October 11, 2026 6:56 am

Life in uniform

The unexpected life lessons of the Army

Trent Reedy October 11, 2026 6:54 am

Merchandise featuring the likeness of President Donald Trump on fake money is sold at the National Rifle Association's Annual Meetings & Exhibits.

Trump offered $5,000 for your vote. Hear me out, Democrats — go for $6,000

Scott A. Burns October 11, 2026 6:00 am

Voting stickers are set out in rows to take, with one hand grabbing the circular souvenir.

Losing 2026 is bad — getting locked out until 2036 is the real GOP nightmare

Dennis Lennox October 11, 2026 6:00 am

France Paris Student Riots

A red-green warning from France

Washington Examiner October 11, 2026 5:00 am

People attend a Tax The Rich rally hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America at Lehman College in the borough of the Bronx, New York, on March 29, 2026.

Socialists say it’s a myth. Europe taxed the rich and proved a brutal reality

Rainer Zitelmann October 10, 2026 11:00 am

Pen tracing stock prices.

‘The dip’ is a lie: How institutions engineer retail panic to buy your shares cheap

Eric Wargotz October 10, 2026 11:00 am

A protester shouts at a police officer during a protest marking three years since the 7 October attacks on Israel in London, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Marches and matches

Dominic Green October 10, 2026 10:18 am

Family Group with Cow by Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1888. (Max Yawney/courtesy of Nassau County Museum of Art Permanent Collection)

Louis Comfort Tiffany’s paintings on view in new exhibition

Anthony Paletta October 10, 2026 10:02 am

Many rural hospitals are designated critical access hospitals by Medicare, meaning they have to keep a certain amount of inpatient beds and an emergency room. (AP Photo)Â

I’m an ER doctor. The people calling the shots have never saved a life

Vicki Norton October 10, 2026 10:00 am

Rep. Lauren Boebert, (R-CO).

You know Lauren Boebert’s controversies — Did you know she defied Trump for clean water?

Paul Folsom October 10, 2026 10:00 am