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Fighting for the high ground on contentious political issues inspires a partisan twisting of the English language. Take this Oct. 19 news from Immigra...

ALBANY (TNS) — In a column last week, I noted that the governor’s race is surprisingly close and said Republican Lee Zeldin could pull off an upset. T...

The Congressional Progressive Caucus last week issued, then quickly withdrew, a poorly timed letter to President Joe Biden urging stepped-up efforts t...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — I recently woke up to an email from a local bakery I have patronized that read: “Due to staff shortages, we will be closed t...

Over the eight months since Russia invaded Ukraine, public support for U.S. military aid to Kyiv has been remarkably solid and mostly bipartisan. A la...

President Joe Biden in August unveiled the vote-buying scheme known as student loan forgiveness. Two months later he has forgotten the particulars. Du...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Here we go again. The “Get Trump” TV series has so far included two impeachments, a special counsel investigation and many other h...

The polls won’t close for more than a week, but there already is plenty of spin casting blame and taking credit for midterm wins and losses. Yet as mi...

Is it permissible to think about a potential diplomatic end to the Ukraine war? Judging by the reaction to a letter from House progressives advocating...

As Election Day approaches, I often find myself thinking of H.L. Mencken. Particularly during off-year contests. “The Sage of Baltimore,” as he was kn...

Thanks to the Times Union newspaper in Albany, we know that the vice chair of the brand new state Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government, Leo...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — What if the way to break through our polarized politics was to reward those willing to cross the partisan divide for the greate...

Early voting began in Georgia several days ago. There is, of course, intense interest in both the state’s Senate race, with University of Georgia foot...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — It’s not exactly news that the humanities are in decline and college students are turning toward skills-based and career-focused f...

American children suffered mightily during more than two years of schooling uprooted by COVID, necessitating a sustained all-hands push to reverse the...

Climate activists have found a new target — the greatest masterpieces in the history of Western art. Heretofore, no one thought that Claude Monet’s “H...

Joe Biden wants voters to focus on abortion rights. Last week, just three weeks before the midterm elections, the president said that if Democrats do ...

Whither America? I don’t know and I hate discouraging news but how do you avoid it because, even when you look at higher education, you have to lower ...