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President Biden’s recent speech in which he denounces what he calls “MAGA” Republicans as an anti-democratic force which cannot be tolerated, flanked ...

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...

The Republican Party only had about a half-century to prepare for the end of Roe v. Wade yet is still scared and confused now that the late, unlamente...

Pundits like myself sometimes count on wisdom in telling readers who will get elected in a presidential race while forgetting there are 1,001 events t...

CHICAGO (TNS) — Tuesday marked an uncomfortable anniversary for Russian President Vladimir Putin. On that day in 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Uni...

Last week’s enactment of the 2022 budget-reconciliation bill, also known as the Inflation Reduction Act, is being treated by many analysts as a major ...

BOSTON (TNS) — CNN and its Trump-hating anchors and free-falling ratings are in the middle of a major retool, but can it even be saved? Viewers are fl...

Climate-change activists should take some lessons from the mismanagement and miscommunication surrounding the pandemic. In both cases, people across t...

One of the most conspicuous parts of the tax-and-spending package known as the Inflation Reduction Act is vastly expanded funding for the Internal Rev...

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., will wear that “representative” identification just a tad longer, seeing as how she was stomped to smithereens in a recent bi...

In this broiling summer, when we are shaken by threats that could shatter our most globally revered national monument — America’s cherished democracy ...

Alan Nichols was “basically put to death” in a Toronto hospital, his brother Gary told the Associated Press. Nichols was 61 years old, with a history ...

Shine up that “Profile in Courage” award — Liz Cheney and her massive ego will be along soon to claim it. But that’s about all Cheney will have. Chene...

Our country is in a very dark place at the moment. But I have hope, because the answers are all around us. They live around us. For thousands of years...

OLEAN — Common Council can afford a $1.5 million (and we all know it will cost more) splashpad but it rejected the city firefighters’ contract because...

ALBANY (TNS) — Did you remember to celebrate the anniversary of Andrew Cuomo’s resignation? There was no need for a big bash. Something small would ha...

Does Attorney General Merrick Garland know that he is investigating the man most likely to be the opponent of the president he serves? Does he realize...

One day, when he wasn’t around, a couple of the only FBI agents who were friends with former President Donald Trump raided Attorney General Merrick Ga...