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There usually is nothing politicians love better than their moments of benevolent generosity. Legislators who opposed a program they deemed a pork pro...

DENVER (TNS) — When Democrats candidly assess the party’s prospects for November, their responses range from bad to awful to curled up and whimpering ...

Those spectacular pictures of galaxies forming at a time very near the origin of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope came at a pretty pri...

New COVID-19 surges have put many communities across the nation in a precarious position. The highly transmissible and evasive BA.5 subvariant is gett...

In this era of reflexive counterpunching, where powerful people and institutions are often conditioned not to back down, public apologies are rare. Wh...

We are paying more for nearly everything today — from groceries to gas to housing. As inflation reaches its highest in 40 years — rising seven percent...

Recently, this column focused on the Biden administration’s practice of allowing illegal border crossers to stay in the United States. Documents made ...

“Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” — Joe Biden If Biden looked at the budgets of about half of old...

Baseball is a game of numbers, and one of the most iconic of them, 61, is now in play. New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge remains on pace to matc...

Since America’s founding, newspapers have played a vital role in keeping the public informed about what’s going on in the world. Democracy depends on ...

A time-honored Washington axiom holds that one should never attribute to scandal what could be explained by garden-variety incompetence. In the case o...

WASHINGTON — Last week, a bipartisan group of 16 U.S. senators agreed on a long-awaited proposal to fix the Electoral Count Act, the ramshackle 1887 l...

Whether Pennsylvania should provide tax credits to help fund scholarships for private schools is a debatable policy question. Whether the state should...

It is now clear that the talks aimed at reviving the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal — are going now...

I read the columns of Robert Reich, the former labor secretary under President Bill Clinton, with considerable interest, even though Reich is a malevo...

Over the last 40 years, the nation’s courts have consistently ruled that health care is a constitutional right for the country’s 2 million prisoners. ...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Scott Spoor began struggling with depression and anxiety in 2008. Around the same time, his wife, Jennifer Lugar, was busy raisin...

Word has come down from on high that it is now mandatory to refer to climate change as an “emergency.” Democrats and climate activists are urging Pres...

The highest duty of law is to protect the vulnerable. Perhaps the most important aspect of that is safeguarding those people from the individuals mean...

One of the COVID-19 pandemic’s ancillary effects was the proof it provided that broadband internet service is an essential public utility rather than ...