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“Many religions have festivals which celebrate light overcoming darkness ... They seem to speak to every culture, and appeal to people of all faiths, ...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — China’s economy is in trouble. The juggernaut that once looked bound for global domination is slowing down — and not only in the s...

When the going gets tough, the clever go fishing. Few pastimes connect a person to the natural world like standing in a free-flowing stream casting fo...

Donald Trump isn’t necessarily wrong in calling attention to potential abuses by the FBI, which he suggests is conducting a witch hunt in searching hi...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — When it comes to Queen Elizabeth II, it is the marmalade sandwich I will always remember. For those who never saw the video she m...

Who’s using the culture war to distract from the economy now? Democrats have long believed — going back at least to the famous 2005 Thomas Frank book,...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Chicago became the latest northern city to feel a little of the Texas heat last week. Two busloads of migrants, containing r...

Harriet Hageman is the environmental lawyer who defeated incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney by a landslide in Wyoming’s much-watched Republican House primary. ...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — In early 1990, when Mikhail Gorbachev’s efforts to liberalize Soviet life were in full flower, I was on a journalistic exchange w...

John Fetterman has been in elected politics for nearly 20 years, and last spring was on the cusp of taking the Democratic nomination in a very winnabl...

Quick, somebody repair the slippery floors and close all the open hospital windows in Moscow. One was obviously responsible for the freak-accident dea...

“I voted for Obama twice and Hillary once. But I’ll tell you, I’m going to vote for that knucklehead Donald Trump again.” My Uber driver made that dec...

Two months ago, as Americans began their summer vacations, the political landscape looked bleak for Joe Biden and his Democrats. Inflation was soaring...

The death of the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, has understandably triggered an avalanche of tributes to the man who oversaw the ...

Personally, I’ve no use for what I call “greeting card holidays.” Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Father’s Day, Mother’s Day? Forget it. Actually, I’m lee...

The gold-standard measure of educational trends has the word “progress” in its name. But the National Assessment of Educational Progress unveiled Thur...

One hundred forty years ago, the first Labor Day parade almost ended before it began. On Sept. 5, 1882, thousands of union workers, police officers an...

Joe Biden and Donald Trump are proving that even sworn enemies can cooperate to promote one another’s political interests. President Biden, with his c...