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In the past few days, we’ve seen a number of political analysts come to a momentous conclusion. Actually, two momentous conclusions. The first is that...

NEW YORK (TNS) — This is the big one: the first time the Department of Justice has ever indicted a former president for subverting democracy by trying...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Too many Americans — and too many American economists in particular — have an unhealthy obsession with the 1%: how much money they ma...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has always had a famous name — yet until recently, his association with the anti-vaccine movement and fringe th...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Republicans are doing their damnedest to make Vice President Kamala Harris a liability for President Joe Biden’s reelection, not wi...

A fierce debate, or at least a steady murmur, is building on the Republican side about whether it would be a good idea to impeach Joe Biden. There are...

Illegal sports gambling was a major problem on college campuses long before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a federal law in 2018 that had precluded...

Meaningful action on the drug epidemic is long overdue. State lawmakers should already be working on an agenda for next year. The National Institutes ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — They didn’t do anything when Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy made all sorts of unwise promises to his party’s radical wing in ord...

There have been so many poisonous and stupid lies about Florida since 2020, it’s almost hard to keep track, but the latest may be the most outrageous....

NEW YORK (TNS) — Between this summer’s biblical floods, apocalyptic fires and life-threatening heat domes, people are starting to wonder whether we’ve...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Did greedy grocers and grabby workers cause the inflation? That’s what the central bankers of the world would have us believe. Appa...

ALBANY (TNS) — Mulling over the conspiracies pushed by Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. led me to a question: Why aren’t more p...

Recently, New York Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city has printed thousands of flyers it plans to distribute at the U.S.-Mexico border. The flye...

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki aren’t depicted in the movie “Oppenheimer,” but they haunt the film — literally. The eponymous physicist and “f...

Government experts and the media tell us that the crippling wave of inflation that hit us during the COVID pandemic is slowly receding, or at least be...

Wow, big news broke last week — President Biden’s campaign is officially going to be headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. For months nervous Democra...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — We don’t know what specific charges special counsel Jack Smith will pursue if former President Donald Trump is indicted on allegati...