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WASHINGTON — Is there anything more depressing than a cheerful liberal? The question is prompted by one such, historian David Goldfield, who has writt...

Work can be challenging in even the best of circumstances—but when you’re depressed and not feeling your absolute best, getting through each workday c...

HELLO, AMERICA: Frances Wolfe Haight shared this story of meeting a pen pal she corresponded with for nearly 60 years. The story goes, “On December 28...

America’s energy sector has reached an interesting crossroads. After eight years of the Obama administration working to dismantle the nation’s coal fl...

WASHINGTON — It was an epoch-defining decision to place in Westminster Abbey, among statues of monarchs, priests and poets, a large one of James Watt,...

Most people that were old enough can remember where they were on September 11th, 2001. When I ask folks from Bradford where they were, I usually get a...

Once receiving worldwide accolades as the “nation that feeds the world,” we now have nearly 50 million people in America receiving supplemental nutrit...

WASHINGTON — In 1950, the year before William F. Buckley burst into the national conversation, the literary critic Lionel Trilling revealed why the na...

WASHINGTON — The Bill O'Reilly saga has three villains: the revolting former anchor himself; the network that ignored accusations of serial abuse; and...

SAN DIEGO — At America's core, you'll find two competing beliefs about citizen power. On the one hand, Americans cherish the idea that one person can ...

WASHINGTON — The world is agog at Donald Trump's head-snapping foreign policy reversal. He runs on a platform of America First. He renounces the role ...

SEE AMERICA: Donald Neal of Bradford shared this ode to small town America. “See America” I have seen the snow capped mountains, And marveled at the f...

TEMPE, Ariz. —Encouraging developments are as welcome as they are rare in colleges and universities that cultivate diversity in everything but thought...

You chose to enter college. You chose to be cheerleaders. You chose to not stand for our National Anthem. I chose to be a Marine. I chose to fight for...

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., said the new travel ban signed on Monday by President Trump lays out a more detailed, coordinated and clearer set of rule...

WASHINGTON — Although America's political system seems unable to stimulate robust, sustained economic growth, it at least is stimulating consumption o...

Imagine a tall oak tree with its roots anchored firmly in the earth. Imagine that America is like that tree, with its roots our Constitution. Over the...

WASHINGTON — The dyspeptic Henry Adams was not nice but not wrong when he described what now is named the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjace...

This letter is in response to Eugene Johnson’s letter from Feb. 3. If the media is supposed to question the president when he lies, what happened to e...

The United States is a Democratic Republic, and President Trump is our duly-elected president. He was elected with 306 of the required 270 Electoral C...