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Opinion November 25

The American Dream isn’t dead, but each one of us needs to help it to thrive

Individual Americans, not politicians, hold the key to restoring our nation's direction

Opinion June 16

MIKE POMPEO: Trump delivers major win for American steel workers where Biden failed

Trump's executive order approving Nippon Steel's acquisition of U.S. Steel brings $14 billion for modernization, preserves jobs, and strengthens alliance with Japan against China

Opinion May 22

GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM: Protecting American jobs – and air

I am alarmed that California's clean-air standards face threats from Senate Republicans, risking American innovation in electric vehicles and global market competitiveness.

LIFESTYLE October 18, 2024

Meet the American who invented the hard hat, a proud symbol of our nation's working class

Edward W. Bullard invented the hard hat in 1919, then patented it in 1929. It's credited with saving lives on job sites while also becoming a symbol of working-class America.

LIFESTYLE September 6, 2024

Meet the American who invented the shopping cart, Sylvan Goldman, Oklahoma supermarket mogul

Meet Sylvan Goldman, an American born to immigrant parents in Oklahoma. As a businessman, his brilliantly simple invention, the shopping cart, changed consumer culture.

LIFESTYLE August 16, 2024

Meet the American who launched modern submarines, John Philip Holland, 'brilliant' self-taught engineer

Meet the American who is "the father of the modern submarine." The first U.S. and British submarines, the USS Holland and HMS Holland, were the designs of John Philip Holland.

LIFESTYLE August 2, 2024

Meet the American who launched the Frisbee, Fred Morrison, World War II combat pilot and POW

Walter Frederick Morrison conceived of a leisure-time flying disc on a California beach in 1937. He made the Frisbee a reality after serving heroically in World War II.

LIFESTYLE July 16, 2024

Meet the American who invented the TV remote control: self-taught Chicago engineer Eugene Polley

Self-taught Chicago mechanical engineer Eugene Polley invented the first wireless TV remote control in 1955, but his contribution was nearly erased by later innovations.

LIFESTYLE March 30, 2024

On this day in history, March 30, 1858, American visionary Hymen Lipman patents pencil with eraser

The pencil eraser was patented in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by Hymen Lipman, a Jewish immigrant from Kingston, Jamiaca, on this day in history, March 30, 1858.

LIFESTYLE January 10, 2024

American exceptionalism 'running on fumes' as woke ideology stifles creativity and meritocracy, scholars say

American exceptionalism, universally accepted as real for generations, is now threatened by woke ideology, say scholars Victor Davis Hanson and Craig Shirley.