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NEW YORK (TNS) — At Pennsylvania Society, the swanky weekend gathering of the political class in Manhattan, a swift and sudden shift is underway for t...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Attorney GeneralJosh Shapirohas a lot of policy ideas and objectives that he wants to bring to Pennsylvania’s governor’s office. Bu...

I used to think self-styled “progressives” and Black Lives Matter activists had coined the dumbest political slogan of the 21st century: “Defund the P...

Temporarily anyway, Donald J. Trump resembles the Br’er Rabbit of the Joel Chandler Harris tales: flung into the briar patch by the FBI search of his ...

Does Attorney General Merrick Garland know that he is investigating the man most likely to be the opponent of the president he serves? Does he realize...

It's understandable that Democrats would want to constantly revisit Jan. 6 — to invoke it, investigate it and sacralize it even. It's a mystery, at le...

There is a consensus that the Democratic Party is in trouble with midterm elections seven months away. The polls say it, the issues say it and history...

As I write, a 40-mile-long convoy of Russian “peacekeepers” — i.e., tanks, armored personnel carriers and mobile artillery — is approaching Kyiv with ...

Only last week, we learned that one Donald J. Trump was, in effect, the Typhoid Mary of the COVID-19 epidemic during the 2020 campaign. What’s more, u...

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

Here is where the Old Contrarian (me) seeks to diminish the importance of what Old Yeller (not the 1956 children’s book, but the 45th president of the...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Mike Pence is determined not to be the modern version of William R. King, William A. Wheeler or Charles W. Fairbanks. The three — v...

Joe Biden, Superstar. For years, Democrats looked at Biden and then turned away. Now they regard him as the savior of the party and perhaps even the c...

It is said that medieval scholastic philosophers debated how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. If so, they didn’t have anything on the amorp...

In the nine elections between 1980 and 2012, candidates with one of three names — Bush, Cheney and Romney — appeared on the GOP’s national ticket nine...

VERO BEACH, Fla. — The Dodgers are long gone, having abandoned their onetime spring-training home here a dozen years ago. The snowbirds are flocking n...

Before the second impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump began Tuesday, it may have been tempting to think of it as a sequel to a show that had been can...

Many years ago, as a young foreign correspondent, I went to Beirut to cover the Lebanese civil war. On the wall of the newsroom where I worked, someon...

Now that the electoral college has spoken, it is high time that we Republicans salute and recognize the next president of these United States, Joseph ...

WASHINGTON — This country is, in a word, exhausted. The velocity of news in the Trump era has been unprecedented. The passions expressed in this perio...