The midterms can wait. I’ll take the Brewers in six.
My column this week @WSJFreeEx wsj.com/opinion/free-e…

WILL TRUMP’S MIDTERM BLITZ BOOST TURNOUT? Paul Gigot interviews pollster Mark Penn. #JER

NEW:

FBI Raided Home of @AbdulElSayed’s Mother During Counterterrorism Probe, Sister Said

Quite a find by @alanagoodman

freebeacon.com/democrats/fbi-…

HITS AND MISSES: The week's best and worst from @continetti, @AllysiaFinley, @KimStrassel. #JER

October sports offer Americans a chance to share and enjoy common experiences even as they divide over politics. The timing is no accident. It’s providence, writes @continetti
on.wsj.com/47DCRf7

This week’s front-page headlines have been filled with war, betrayal, corruption and lies. I couldn’t be in a happier mood, writes @continetti
on.wsj.com/4iBRl5l

Netflix's new documentary, THE TALE OF NORM MACDONALD, is kind of amazing, both in terms of its content (lots of Norm!) and its form (it recreates going down a video rabbit hole amazingly well). I talked about it with Norm chronicler @geoffedgers: thebulwark.com/p/the-tao-of-n…

“The timing is no accident. It’s providence. Ask a theologian. ‘Sports are an almost universal language binding our diverse nation, especially its men, together,’ wrote #MichaelNovak in his classic #TheJoyofSports.” @continetti @WSJFreeEx wsj.com/opinion/free-e…

Important read from Brent Orrell & @KeithNHumphreys @TheAtlantic @AEICosm @AEI theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/…

Today: @continetti embraces the season of sports; @Hannah_Cristine supports the midwives; @EthanT17888 disputes why the younger generation is “mad as hell;” and @Schneider_CM buys stuff. Plus, @MattHennessey relays a message from the autobots.
wsj.com/opinion/free-e…

RT @hughhewitt: I can’t think of any reporter who has scored more scoops than @ChuckRossDC of @FreeBeacon this cycle. His latest warns Mich…

Medicare for All Is Popular—Until People Find Out How It Would Work @CPopeHC @CityJournal city-journal.org/article/medica…

Tom Skerritt, who starred in the TV series “Picket Fences” and appeared in movies ranging from “MASH” to “Alien,” “Top Gun,” “A River Runs Through It” and “Ted,” has died of natural causes at 93.

variety.com/2026/film/news…

October 22, @continetti recommends The Strategist by Eliot A. Cohen

Sensible steps on health care caused uproar. Now the numbers are in. wapo.st/4jBon6O

Had a great time talking with Chris Williamson about the Gen Z gender divide, how it happened and what we can do about it. Give it a watch!
youtube.com/watch?v=uHJUcw…

'The original review of "The Skeleton Dance" in Variety concluded with the terse note, “Don’t bring your children.” The irony is, of course, that children love it, perhaps more than anyone else.'
reactormag.com/the-skeleton-d…

Important from @kevincorinth @PostOpinions @AEICosm @AEI
wapo.st/4sqWX5W

'The real point of last week’s big reveal was to show that anything is possible. Mission accomplished.' Great @jamesbmeigs @WSJFreeEx

wsj.com/opinion/free-e…

A must-read x.com/Marian_L_Tupy/…