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What do you bring to Free Expression? Subscribe to the Free Expression daily newsletter at the link in our bio. #WSJFreeExpression 07 Nov 2026

Nobody has a better claim to being the 2026 midterm election’s biggest winner than Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff, writes Zach Kessel. Read the full piece at the link in our bio. #WSJFreeExpression 06 Nov 2026

Politicians fancy that the people elect them to implement visions, to approach problems boldly and heal souls, to reverse course sharply, writes Kyle Smith. You can easily find polling that supports ideas along these lines. They’re wrong. People keep revealing, via elections, that their actual preference is for political leaders to do very little. Everyone knows that in midterms the party ruling the White House almost always gets beaten up, sometimes nearly beaten to death. But no one ever stops to ask why. The reason is that presidents (who usually arrive in the Oval Office backed by congressional majorities) keep doing stuff that gets people fed up. Read more at the link in our bio. #WSJFreeExpression Photo: Alberto Sibaja/Pacific Press/Zuma Press 05 Nov 2026

Four of New York’s newly approved ballot proposals will make it easier to build things in the city, says Emma Camp. Subscribe to the Free Expression daily newsletter at the link in our bio. #WSJFreeExpression 05 Nov 2026

Many Republicans in Texas and elsewhere are casting about for someone or something to blame for the outcome of the midterm elections. The answers are more obvious than their contortions would suggest, writes Jack Butler. Subscribe to the Free Expression daily newsletter at the link in our bio. #WSJFreeExpression 04 Nov 2026

I have sworn off swearing. What has worked for me, so far, is an approach that people in psychological circles call “positive punishment” and that regular people call “a swear jar,” writes Meghan Cox Gurdon. Read the full piece at the link in our bio. #WSJFreeExpression 04 Nov 2026

The Free Expression staff answer whether democracy is on the ballot this midterm election. Subscribe to the Free Expression daily newsletter at the link in our bio. #WSJFreeExpression 03 Nov 2026

I’ve voted in every election since 1972. This year, for the first time, I have no idea whether my vote will be counted, writes Howard Husock. An early morning fiasco left me in doubt—and longing for the days of the old-time mechanical voting machine. I’m still enough of a sentimental OG that I walk to my local firehouse on Election Day to cast my ballot Tuesday morning. But having signed in, the crew of volunteer staff, most even older than I am, informed me that the ballot scanners were “down.” I couldn’t come back later. As far as the system was concerned, I’d already voted. Read more at the link in our bio. #WSJFreeExpression Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images 03 Nov 2026

The experience of standing in line to vote on Election Day, far more likely to happen when everyone goes to the polls on the same day, affords a little lesson in civic life, writes Barton Swaim. Read the full piece at the link in our bio. #WSJFreeExpression 03 Nov 2026

The Free Expression staff weighs in on the importance, or lack of importance, of voting. Subscribe to the Free Expression daily newsletter at the link in our bio. #WSJFreeExpression 02 Nov 2026

There’s an entire “Save the Bars” movement determined to stop the city from renovating the Tompkins Square Park fitness area and basketball courts. But if the local government should be able to do anything, it should be able to renovate local parks, says Emma Camp. Subscribe to the Free Expression daily newsletter at the link in our bio. #WSJFreeExpression 02 Nov 2026

If you want to see a first-rate actor at work, watch Sir Patrick Stewart in the episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” titled “Darmok,” writes Spencer Klavan. Stewart, who died on Oct. 28 at his home in Los Angeles, spent seven seasons playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise. It could have been a throwaway role in a second-rate reboot. But Stewart took it every bit as seriously as his Shakespearean roles onstage. In doing so he elevated the material, and its audience, as only a true professional can. Read more at the link in our bio. #WSJFreeExpression Photo: Patrick Baz/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images 30 Oct 2026

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