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Americans are used to picturing Army combat soldiers as incredibly tough individuals, able to run faster and do more pushups than most people. In toda...

It’s national budget time in Washington, so the conversation on Capitol Hill is focused on numbers. But an important number is being overlooked, one t...

In honor of Black History Month, I thought that it might be useful to share some of what I learned as a white child growing up in Alabama before and d...

The Affordable Care Act, which not that long ago appeared doomed by Republican determination to kill it, has quietly become an integral and accepted p...

American voters have been trying to tell political parties and elected officials what they want, and perhaps more importantly, what they don’t want. T...

A second civil war seems far-fetched. But do we ignore the possibility at our peril? Or do we turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy by talking about...

Americans have a lot to worry about. Soaring inflation. A pandemic that refuses to go away. Locked-down schools that keep the kids at home while you h...

Technological achievements throughout human history have been met with skepticism and condemnation. While most people ultimately laud such achievement...

The 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign was essentially a bidding war in which each candidate pledged to spend trillions of dollars beyond w...

What can sensible adults agree on regarding Kyle Rittenhouse, the latest young symbol on whom America can hang its devastating internal division and t...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker would not have fallen into the trap that befell Terry McAuliffe, the hapless Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia...

Headlines are projecting that the prospects for the upcoming holidays look bleak. COVID-19 is in retreat, thankfully, but new obstacles to the season’...

In 1947, more than 4 million Americans owned $3.4 billion in saving deposits held not by a bank or credit union, but by the U.S. Postal Service. It’s ...

With the threat of another government shutdown averted by the raise of the debt ceiling level, all is well — or is it? This was the 79th time since 19...

Americans on the home front are exhausted from a marathon of foreign fallout. As the Taliban cancels this semester’s gender studies curriculum at the ...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — A Syracuse University professor’s controversial social media comments about 9/11 have triggered threats and calls for the school to f...

It is understandable, given the chaos surrounding the U.S. exit from Afghanistan — especially the murder of the 13 U.S. troops — that our attention ha...

On that day 20 years ago this week, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war on Pentagon bureaucracy, saying that it was a threat to national...