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Gas prices “are going to go up” and we “can’t do much” about it. Those are words that no American president wants to say, but that’s exactly what Pres...

COVID AND ALCOHOL: A previously conducted study came to the conclusion that American drinkers each consumed 859 standard sized alcoholic drinks throug...

PENNSYLVANIA PESSIMIST : Given that 2021 started with a riot at the Capitol and ended with another highly contagious surge of a new Covid variant, one...

In an ideal world, it wouldn’t be hard for the Republican Party to do two things. The first is to acknowledge that former President Donald Trump’s cla...

Wars and military escalations breed clichés that are exclusive, yet elusive. So the Vietnam War’s best and brightest spent a decade chasing their illu...

A second civil war seems far-fetched. But do we ignore the possibility at our peril? Or do we turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy by talking about...

KANE — The Kane Historic Preservation Society announced the 200 birthday of town founder General Thomas Leiper Kane on Jan. 27, 2022. General Kane’s 2...

Americans have a lot to worry about. Soaring inflation. A pandemic that refuses to go away. Locked-down schools that keep the kids at home while you h...

As life returned somewhat to normal last year after the pandemic shutdowns of 2020, America’s briefly reduced greenhouse gas emissions have started cl...

The Democratic Party's problem with Hispanic voters is worse than leaders think, according to a new assessment by the highly regarded strategist Ruy T...

The death of former Sen. Bob Dole at age 98 — a full quarter-century after he was the unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee — inevitably raises...

No CPAC invitation will be in the offing anytime soon, but Vladimir Putin has picked up admirers on the populist right, here and abroad, that he doesn...

Prosecutors in the recent Michigan school shooting by a 15-year-old student that left four dead also have filed manslaughter charges against the shoot...

There was a prevailing feeling of optimism as I stood outside the Supreme Court with the sun warming us on a brisk late fall day as oral arguments in ...

Every time I hear somebody say that America’s contemporary political climate is uniquely violent, I wonder, “Where were you during the Nixon years?” T...

Democrats should leave in place a cap on deductions that wealthy taxpayers can claim based on their state taxes — the one good part of the Republicans...

For its San Diego convention in the summer of 1996, the Republican Party was anxious to avoid the acrimonious tone of its gathering in Houston four ye...

Millions of Americans lack access to reliable, high-speed internet service, and the inequality is particularly striking in rural America. The rural br...

My first reaction when I read the secret details from the Pandora Papers about how the world’s rich hide their assets was: What else is new? Do we nee...

If the biggest news is what’s not being talked about, then my candidate for the most neglected story would be President Joe Biden’s plan for $3.5 tril...