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(TNS) The transition from Barack Obama to Donald Trump certainly feels like a historic moment, historically awful for some and positive for others. If...

(TNS) We, the citizenry of an open democracy, try to treat presidential debates as moments of civic virtue, political education and rare, unfiltered o...

(TNS) Terrorism is generally defined as the use of violence against random innocents with the intent to generate fear and emotions that further the te...

(TNS) A decade ago, the dictionary people at Merriam-Webster performed a great public service by bestowing its word of the year award to “truthiness.”...

The rites of the graduation are commencing. In gyms, auditoriums and grassy quads, high school and college graduates will be treated, or subjected, to...

(TNS) In the early 1980s I was a mediocre graduate student at the feet of the legendary British philosopher and historian Isaiah Berlin. The Universit...

(TNS) Barrack Obama arrived at Columbia University too late to encounter professor Richard Hofstadter personally. But the great historian’s mark was c...