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Why would former Rep. Liz Cheney run for president? Is she nuts? Is she trying to sell a book? Why would a Republican whose last election was losing a...

ALBANY (TNS) — It is depressingly easy to find examples of politicians acting like, well, politicians. You know — pandering, getting fuzzy with the tr...

Since the annual Small Business Saturday holiday shopping campaign was launched in 2010, it has been a record-setting success, according to the Nation...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — When Israel pounded Gaza with airstrikes after Hamas launched its Oct. 7 attack, it opened a dramatic divide among Democrats over a...

In December 1966, the CBS special “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” premiered. At the time, it was “the most expensive half-hour ever put on TV” due to...

America’s high schools face a growing crisis: Millions of students who entered ninth grade in the fall of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, are set...

Military history offers no shortage of examples in which imprecise thinking and terminology contributed to failure at some level; as well cases of cle...

Henry Kissinger, the great American statesman who has died at age 100, stands accused by his critics of many things, but perhaps the most outlandish i...

New York no longer has the most forward-leaning and effective energy policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That award now goes to the Biden admin...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The latest Consumer Price Index report showed inflation slowing in October, due in part to a supposed 34% drop in the cost of healt...

Pretty soon, there won’t be a holiday left that doesn’t relate to a loss for me. Maybe it comes with age as we become more and more aware of losing fa...

On Sept. 20, Politico published an article headlined, “Biden campaign set to counterpunch on misinformation.” The story reported that President Joe Bi...

NEW YORK (TNS) — During the pandemic years, Americans’ trust in scientists fell, according to a Pew poll released this month. In 2019, only 13% of Ame...

The figure of Napoleon has long been an object of fascination, but the new Ridley Scott biopic makes one wonder why. The film, perhaps inadvertently, ...

Recent events have underlined how little success the United States and global establishment is having in its efforts to mold public opinion and vilify...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Wind power may be having a difficult year, but it’s still many times cheaper than oil or gas and remains a core piece of the energy-t...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Is it possible that Israel could win a military victory in Gaza and still lose the war? I understand the reason for Israel’s inva...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — After more than a decade of uncontrolled experiments by internet platforms on millions of users, there is an emerging possibility ...