Brian Murray knows just how fierce an opponent Arizona’s Sen. Kyrsten Sinema can be. The Republican strategist saw his candidate lose to Democrat Sinema in their 2012 […]
Author: Salena Zito
Bear grease’s cultural imprint still relevant thanks to Newcomb
ARKANSAS — Clay Newcomb is on a personal mission to explore things forgotten in a digital world that moves past people and experiences at the speed of […]
Pennsylvania leapt further right on Election Night
Voters in the Keystone State, as in Virginia, took Nov. 2’s election as an opportunity to rebut Democrats’ overreach. With mail-in ballots still pending, Republicans are poised […]
What people think of Major League Baseball’s C-suite cowardice
Last April, when Major League Baseball pulled the All-Star Game out of suburban Atlanta in what it thought was a strident example of the powerful corporate punishment […]
Va. delegate races could reflect national anti-Democratic mood
RICHMOND, Va. — Some of the many overlooked but critically important offices in the American political landscape are the ones held by state legislators and members of […]
School board meetings show only that freedom is messy
Twenty years ago, Paul Carson said he never would have hesitated to speak out at a school board meeting about any issue affecting his children’s education. But […]
Where the wave begins: Politics start in small-town America
For as much cash and strategy as partisans put into creating a wave for their own parties, they always seem to miss where the ripple starts and […]
The unbreakable will of this Pennsylvania town
LOWER ALLEN TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Sometimes, a community’s relationship with its culture and its people is so strong it can withstand anything that tries to break it […]
Life along the border collapses
Take all of the imagery you have seen of the over 14,000 Haitian migrants camped under an international bridge in the small Texas border town of Del […]
Americans have not forgotten the 13 soldiers
When judging the nation’s character, the media tend to gravitate toward its loudest voices, its most extreme measures, its deepest grudges. The result is a loss of […]
