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Two weeks ago we saw a win and a loss for health care. North Carolina became the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. That’s a...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — Maybe it is because I am preparing to launch one of my children off to college, but I have been thinking a lot about inflection...

Alvin Bragg, the local district attorney in Manhattan who has led the effort to indict former President Donald Trump, is an elected official. He ran f...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — A couple of weeks ago, as I moderated a discussion at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House on the heated battle to ...

It’s not an understatement to say that his Ukraine invasion has been a miscalculation and unmitigated disaster for Vladimir Putin in every arena. His ...

Count me among those who are skeptical about indicting former president Donald Trump on charges that he tried to cover up an affair by paying off a po...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Arrested for corruption or corruptly arrested? As of this writing, the former president of the United States and frontrunning GOP ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TNS) — When President Bill Clinton took advantage of a woman young enough to be his daughter and then lied about it under oath, Democ...

COVID-19 was already spreading widely around the world in February and early March of 2020 — well before many Americans had gotten the message that th...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Donald Trump is beginning to sound panicky. “WHY WON’T BRAGG DROP THIS CASE?” he wrote on his Truth Social account last week of Man...

Once again, the 12 members of the state Commission on Judicial Nomination — appointed by the bipartisan leadership of the Legislature, the governor an...

Wait just a minute here — you mean the war in Ukraine isn’t simply a territorial dispute? Who knew? Not Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, obviously. Until he...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Twenty years ago, when I first hired him in Baghdad, my Iraqi interpreter and driver Salam was thrilled that the Americans had to...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — I’ve been thinking about death lately. Turning 50 can do that to a person. I exercise regularly, drink water … all of that. But th...

Whatever else it produced, this week’s visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Moscow did not advance the cause of a just peace in Ukraine. If anythi...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Sen. Ted Cruz is known for having strong opinions, many of which are needlessly bombastic; some of which are best ignored. B...

Seemingly everyone in the commentariat has an opinion on what most hadn’t heard or thought of 10 days ago (Silicon Valley Bank), and from there it’s a...

It’s been two decades since, on March 19, 2003, United States forces invaded Iraq. President George W. Bush ordered the invasion to neutralize what he...