Arrow-right Camera
The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Latest Stories

Opinion >  Syndicated columns

Michelle Goldberg: What Orban’s defeat means for the rest of the world

On Saturday, the day before the election in Hungary, I went to Puspokladany, a rundown town of about 16,000 in the northeastern part of the country, for the penultimate rally of the opposition leader, Peter Magyar. Though the region has traditionally been a stronghold of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party, the square where Magyar spoke was overflowing; there seemed to be at least 1,000 people, many of them teenagers and young families. Over and over, Magyar beseeched the crowd, “Do not be afraid!” The crowd, in turn, broke into a chant: “We are not afraid!”
Opinion >  Syndicated columns

Bret Stephens: No, Iran isn’t winning the war

Imagine, for a moment, that you are a gifted midcareer intelligence officer in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Because of the nature of your work, you have access to foreign sources of news. Because of your intellect, you preserve a capacity for independent judgment even as you remain loyal to the regime.
Opinion >  Syndicated columns

LZ Granderson: Faith lessons don’t belong in public schools, and Christians know that

We had so much going on this week, with the new season of "Euphoria" coming out and the president threatening to wipe out a 2,600-year-old civilization, that it's easy to miss things like the latest attempt by conservatives to reshape the U.S. into a theocracy. Not satisfied with shoehorning Bible stories into its English curriculum and the push to display the Ten Commandments in public ...