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COMMON SENSE, by Thomas Paine, was published January 10, 1776. Tuesday was its 247th anniversary. The 50-page pamphlet sold more than 500,000 copies i...

There is a real public health crisis among America’s young people, and it isn’t COVID-19. Every day, more than 300 of our children and loved ones are ...

If there’s one clear lesson from the Brittney Griner/Paul Whelan controversy that’s keeping partisans in America’s culture wars all worked up, it’s th...

BOSTON (TNS) — The two major political parties’ long hold on America could be finally starting to slip, setting the stage for an exodus of disgruntled...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Pat Toomey, R-Pa., introduced the Pipeline Permitting for Energy Security Act, which would create regulatory certainty for n...

Why is it rural Americans are basically left out of the polls when new numbers are shown to suggest that inflation is going down? Those of us who live...

BOSTON (TNS) — The Democrats’ relentlessly negative campaign strategy for winning the midterms may come with a cost in 2024, damaging their prospects ...

In the days before the midterm elections, it’s easy to see our political divisions. In fact, it’s all but impossible to escape them if you’re the sort...

The death of the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, has understandably triggered an avalanche of tributes to the man who oversaw the ...

The examples abound of America’s lurch toward greater extremism on both the right and left. It’s getting to the point where free speech is being stifl...

In this broiling summer, when we are shaken by threats that could shatter our most globally revered national monument — America’s cherished democracy ...

There’s a reason for the simultaneous mourning and celebration of the lives of a basketball player and an actress, both out of the public eye for year...

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

Think about it this way: There is no army or police department in any halfway civilized country — not even the United States — that would allow an unt...

The expected Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade is an affirmation of America's beleaguered federalist system. If the final opinion from the ...

(Editor’s note: This is an editorial from the Chicago Tribune, distributed by Tribune News Service.) This editorial board long has supported a woman’s...

America faces a serious economic and national security risk when it comes to the development and manufacturing of semiconductor chips that are integra...

The motto for Great Valley High School and its 1,400 students in the Pennsylvania borough of Malvern, about 25 miles west of Philadelphia, is “Creatin...

One of the most dysfunctional aspects of America’s dysfunctional health care system is medical debt. Even insured patients today can find themselves s...

A sweeping generalization is an overarching or overly broad statement or opinion in which a general idea or rule is applied too widely, without allowi...