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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Every nation has sacred places, where history has stopped and lingered, and visitors are hushed by memories of redemptive sacrifice. ...

Historically Americans have complained that elections offer little real choice between presidential candidates or policies. Democrats and Republicans ...

PHILADELPHIA — A longtime Republican friend texted just as the Democratic National Convention was burying itself in balloons: "I'm sorry," she said, "...

PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic National Convention here was Broadway to the summer stock production that Republicans put on in Cleveland. The Democrats...

Say this for the Democratic Party: They put on a great show. Maybe there’s something to their unabashed affiliation with 95 or more percent of Hollywo...

WASHINGTON — To gauge the opportunism and hypocrisy that define Donald Trump's Republican Party, consider this: Imagine the scalding rhetoric that wou...

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton's convention week featured two of the most effective communicators in the Democratic Party offering different images of t...

It’s good to be back! I’ve been away from the column for a while, traveling the area searching for new adventures, and wildlife opportunities. It is n...

After recording the final out in the team’s second victory of the Pennsylvania 8-10 Little League state championship tournament, the squad from Lehigh...

Hillary Rodham Clinton limped into the Democratic National Convention with enough pledged delegates to claim the Democrats’ nomination for the preside...

As always, nature fascinates. We had at one time a fat, happy toad living in our yard. He had discovered a convenient little shelter in our rock garde...

NEW YORK (AP) — The relentless series of mass killings across the globe poses a challenge for experts trying to analyze them without lapsing into faul...

WASHINGTON — There is no equivalence — none — between the campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton when it comes to mistreatment of and contempt ...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Maybe it’s because he’s been at St. Bonaventure for 31 years. But probably it’s just his personality. Larry Sudbrook is not an exper...

PHILADELPHIA — If political conventions tell us anything beyond the predictable, the one held last week in Cleveland and the other going on this week ...

WASHINGTON — It’s not just native-born Americans expressing nativist sentiments these days. Somehow, it’s immigrants, too. “I think that enough immigr...

The four-day Trump-a-thon, sometimes noted as the Republican National Convention, ended last week in Cleveland, with the Republican party still divide...

PHILADELPHIA — When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, he was greeted with his own camp...

WASHINGTON — With Thomas Hobbes now firmly in charge of Republican messaging — the world is a dark, Darwinian bloodbath, unless we turn over power to ...

PHILADELPHIA — En route to fight one of his many duels, French politician Georges Clemenceau bought a one-way train ticket. Was he pessimistic? "Not a...