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DAYS: The first hundred days of a president’s term are considered a benchmark for action. How did it become so important? We owe that to Franklin D. R...

Jimmy Carter burst on to the national political scene during difficult times. The previous years had been marked by the turbulent 1960s and Vietnam. W...

NEW YORK (AP) — As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than ot...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Perhaps on the Fourth of July, the Alitos flew the American flag properly, not upside down, at their Virginia or New Jersey homes. ...

(TNS) — Next week’s debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump will be novel for many reasons. It will be the first debate between a current and a form...

Parties fall apart; the center cannot hold. (We’ve sure seen that.) Mere anarchy is loosed upon the political world. (Have a look at the morning paper...

NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — Is this the time to look to the past for a reason not to be stuck in the past? Is this the time to look to 1940, and then to 1945...

On June 17, Americans found ourselves at the convergence of two crises of shattering assaults on our democracy. They were crises of crimes and cover-u...

In the swirling days since what I suppose we should just call The Leak, a significant theme has been the argument that the Supreme Court has grown dee...

U.S. gross domestic product shrank 1.4% in the first quarter at the same time inflation continued to soar. For older Americans, that combination conju...

There are many ways to deal with the environmental fallout from major infrastructure projects. Republican PresidentRichard Nixonagreed with congressio...

The massive tornadoes that struck in mid-December claimed the lives of more than a dozen workers at an Amazon warehouse in Illinois and the Mayfield c...

Bob Dole first emerged as a national figure in the early 1970s, defending President Richard Nixon’s Vietnam policies and excoriating such Democratic o...

Throughout his epic, scandal-ridden career, Donald Trump has compiled an astonishing record of impunity, constantly staying one jump ahead of prosecut...

There are some curious decisions by the administration of President Joe Biden that make me a little skeptical about his media strategy — like no news ...

So Bob Woodward went out and found the “named source” Trumpists were clamoring for: Boss Trump himself. Following a bitter dispute over an anonymously...

Regarding Amy Mallison-Austin’s letter to the editor in the Nov. 21 edition, how fast we forget the history lessons of high school on the U.S. Constit...

MORE TRIVIA : Did you know that one American president was elected unanimously? That another gave his 3,319-word inaugural address from memory? We con...

HOUSTON (AP) — George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted ...

WASHINGTON — "An attack on our country," a clearly agitated President Trump said of the search of his attorney's office and home. Of special counsel R...