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In two days at Shiloh in April 1862, the Union and Confederate armies altogether suffered 23,000 casualties, a shattering total that was the worst of ...

A friend down at the dog park asked about my wife the other day. She and her girlfriend had taken a long weekend trip to visit a former roommate. My f...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Since the entire city seems to be dissecting the secret Los Angeles City Hall recordings for expressions of hatred against every d...

Republicans always believe the polls are slanted against them. That belief has sometimes caused them to misread big political races. In 2012, for exam...

Last week, OPEC+ announced a dramatic reduction in production quotas, by 2 million barrels per day. According to oil ministers, the goal is to boost c...

California progressives tried to build a European-style high-speed rail network and alienated the French in the process. A big New York Times piece on...

Five leaders of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia that played a leading role in storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, went on trial last week in ...

As I write, backbiting and finger-pointing have begun among Florida politicians about the timing of evacuation orders before Hurricane Ian. Having mad...

Elon Musk is about to pollute the country’s discourse, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop him. This is the alarm going up about the eccentric b...

“The newspaper does everything for us ... comforts the afflicted, afflicts the comfortable.” — Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936), American journalist and...

Scientific understanding is challenging the conventional wisdom about hunger — now framing it as a scourge that afflicts not only people who get too f...

Who said the following, and when did he say it: “Drill we must, but it will take 10 years for one drop of oil to come out of any of the wells that are...

There’s a new report from NBC News that President Joe Biden has told a confidant — the Rev. Al Sharpton, of all people — that he will run for reelecti...

I love social media. They keep me in touch with dozens of friends, whom I might otherwise have contact with just every few years, or every few decades...

One of the most significant events in American politics is that Hispanics are, in effect, deciding that they are working-class voters rather than ethn...

Thousands of Americans in Puerto Rico were without power after Hurricane Fiona roared through two weeks ago. Idling off the island’s coast is a ship t...

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — “I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and there is purpose and worth to each a...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — After weeks of reverses, Russia’s army is still losing ground in the battlefields of Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin’s response,...