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Bad ideas never truly go away. So it is that an old left-wing trope from the Cold War has currency again, both on the populist right and among progres...

The Hydra is an ancient Greek mythical beast, mentioned in the tales of Hercules, that was said to have the body of a dragon with many heads, two arms...

In 1936, human rights advocates pushed for a boycott of the “Nazi Olympics,” two years after Adolf Hitler seized power and began persecuting Jews. Som...

PLATTSBURGH (TNS) — Until early last week, Vive Shelter in Buffalo was full to bursting. Many of its residents are families preparing to seek asylum i...

KABUL, Afghanistan — With the Taliban in power in Afghanistan, there’s a new enemy ascending. The Islamic State group threatens to usher in another vi...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has called on the Biden administration to allow vaccinated Canadians to travel to the U.S. for non-essential...

Benjamin Franklin was right about death and taxes, but new taxes only become inevitable when a Democrat is elected president, and here we are. The Hou...

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...

We’re coming up on a month since Canada opened its border to non-essential travel by vaccinated Americans. The United States has failed to reciprocate...

A local Afghanistan veteran drinks a lot of coffee these days as he’s talked with many veterans over the past couple of weeks about the U.S. military ...

WASHINGTON — The United States has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America's longest war and closing a chapter in military history l...

The Islamic State offshoot that Americans blame for Thursday’s deadly suicide attacks outside the Kabul airport coalesced in eastern Afghanistan six y...

Plans are being developed to require vaccination against COVID-19 for all would-be foreign travelers to America. It’s just sensible. First reported ea...

If you ever wondered what it was like to get pleas for help from Jewish friends in Europe as the Nazis marched in, and not be able to save them, I can...

Seeing the first atomic bomb drop on Hiroshima, Japan, 76 years ago should have been the end of nuclear warfare. How could one look at the devastation...

As Americans wrestle over how to defeat the delta variant of COVID-19, China’s government is still refusing to provide the data necessary to determine...

It hasn’t been a satisfying Olympiad for the United States. NBC, the television rights holder, and its cable partners have endured ratings over 40 per...

What do rocket strikes by Shiite militias in Iraq, ransomware attacks on targets in the U.S., and Russia’s use of mercenaries on battlefields in the M...