Opinion

“Foreign nations will be worried about losing their jobs to America,” former president Donald Trump declared at a rally in Savannah, Ga., last month, promising a “manufacturing renaissance” by walling off U.S. markets with high…

The case against the death penalty builds, and events this summer and fall have added rocket fuel to arguments to abolish it. This summer, two more men on death row were exonerated, bringing that total…

Dear editor, I am voting “no” on the EMS tax that appears on the Nov. 5 ballot. First off, I have always supported and will continue to support the brave men and women who make…

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are in a bidding war for votes, and it isn’t pretty. After the Vice President pitched a Medicare home healthcare entitlement, Mr. Trump countered by pitching a tax break for…

Stepmothers don’t get enough credit. Parenting someone else’s offspring can be a really tough job. As a stepmother myself, I understand the challenges that often accompany being part of a blended family, and it’s admirable…

The main argument for the Register’s opposition to the proposed countywide sales tax increase that appears on the Nov. 5 ballot is that changing the funding mechanism for EMS from a property tax to a…

There’s only a few weeks remaining before the 2024 presidential election comes to a close — that is, pending election certification, recounts, challenges and lawsuits. Ed Kilgore, political columnist for New York magazine since 2015,…

The importance of working at McDonald’s as a teenager is one of oddest subplots of a very odd presidential campaign. After Vice President Kamala Harris argued that her time as an employee under the Golden…

The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) has reached a tentative agreement to return to work after winning a 62% pay raise over six years, but the labor dispute isn’t over. Round II will be fought over…

John Morales has nothing to be sorry for. Overwhelmed by the intensity of the approaching Hurricane Milton, the Miami meteorologist’s voice broke as he described the death and destruction in its wake. “It’s just an…