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Any illusions about Vladimir Putin’s objectives should have vanished on Monday, when Russia invaded Ukraine for the second time in a decade. The Russi...

These days, the news is dominated by reporting on the Russian threat to Ukraine, by increasing fatigue with COVID restrictions across the United State...

The Democratic party is finally realizing its vulnerability on culture issues, and perhaps no group better exemplifies the problem than Black Lives Ma...

WASHINGTON — It’s been a measure of former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig’s stature in the conservative legal movement that Supreme Court justices hi...

As expected, three Commonwealth Court judges recently overturned a sensible Philadelphia ordinance requiring people in that gun-violence-plagued city ...

Vladimir Putin and his aides have long insisted that they have no intention of starting a war with Ukraine. President Joe Biden said Friday that U.S. ...

Democrats elsewhere may be fleeing the defund the police movement, but it lives on in Seattle. Business owners told the City Council last week what th...

The Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA) is 809 words in 10 long and confusing sentences describing how Congress is meant to certify the election of a U....

In America, spring doesn’t truly begin until the first pitch on opening day. Unfortunately, the Major League Baseball lockout threatens to prolong win...

In honor of Black History Month, I thought that it might be useful to share some of what I learned as a white child growing up in Alabama before and d...

It’s not 2010 again in GOP politics and never will be, but you could be forgiven for having flashbacks to the beginnings of the tea party. A leaderles...

Sherlock Holmes fans love a locked-door mystery, so it was inevitable that the accidental death of TV comic Bob Saget in a Florida hotel room would ge...

In a combination of overstatement and bad timing, the Legislature’s nonpartisan Independent Fiscal Office needlessly has complicated the simple questi...

VILNIUS, Lithuania — The military and political games Vladimir Putin is playing with all of Europe will continue, whether Moscow invades Ukraine or no...

The opioid epidemic is not like influenza or COVID-19. It is a medical issue that affects the body and threatens lives. It also is a social problem th...

One of the most contentious claims Donald Trump ever made was his insistence that he had been the target of spying. He made the charge in several diff...

The first step in a medical emergency often is taken even before getting to the hospital. It can begin with an ambulance staffed by professionals trai...

Jan. 10 marked the 40th anniversary of my favorite football memory. The San Francisco 49ers pulled off an 89-yard drive with an impressive play pass, ...

Even in an era in which some politicians defend the insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol and side with parents who disrupt school board meetings,...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — A police car pulled alongside me last week as I was walking in the parking lot of an athletic center. The officer asked if everythin...