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It’s doubtful many Americans know that, for the first time, President Biden addressed them from the Oval Office last Friday night — let alone watched ...

Donald Trump hasn’t been known for his scrupulously correct use of language, but now wants to police the use of “woke.” “I don’t like the term ‘woke’ ...

When Alexander Hamilton, as the first Treasury secretary, starting in 1789, began issuing debt to borrow on the good name of the new government of the...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Ukraine’s long-awaited spring offensive against Russia’s invasion has been postponed so long that it has acquired a new name. It’s ...

It was about as ugly a thing as you could watch on social media. A woman viciously attacked by several people behind the counter of a coffee shop. It ...

The 2023 state legislative session will come to an end this week, and lawmakers won’t be back in Albany passing bills for another six months. One of t...

President Joe Biden’s fall at the end of the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony was a brief event. He tripped, got helped up, and walked off under ...

There’s a rather grisly idiom that states, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” Using the New York state budget, the Department of Taxation and ...

Monopoly money” is a term for useless paper notes. Inflation was so bad in 1930s Weimar Germany, it took literal wheelbarrows of cash to buy groceries...

On May 26, 14-year-old Kyleigh Rampley of Cherokee County, Ala., had just finished her final class of seventh-grade when she decided to go out for a r...

Something is usually better than nothing — and that’s certainly the case with the debt ceiling compromise. More than a handful of House Republicans ar...

It often happens at funerals that the heart seems open to the words: “I love you.” We ask ourselves, “Why didn’t I say it more, show it more?” This se...

I received an email recently from a frustrated reader complaining that the 2024 presidential election was shaping up to be an unsatisfying do-over fea...

There’s been a huge amount of commentary on former President Donald Trump’s big lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis in national polls. In the current RealClea...

As the debt ceiling showdown moves toward the critical stages, a bipartisan House group has offered a path forward on another controversial issue: imm...

The field of American history is in crisis. Earlier this month, the Department of Education released troubling data indicating that only 13% of eighth...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The race for the Republican presidential nomination, once a two-man battle between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. R...

New York has been losing people to other states for a while. But something new happened during the pandemic: The people who left had higher incomes th...