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The Brezhnev Doctrine said that the Soviet empire could only expand and never give back its gains.
A year ago this week, Lou Mavrakis beamed as Donald Trump campaigned in economically ravaged Monessen, promising to bring back steel jobs and punish China for unfair trade practices.
In case you missed it, there was good public access news from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week, when the court affirmed the public’s right to access videos gathered by police on the job.
Arlington National Cemetery, it seems, is running out of space.
King Salman of Saudi Arabia just elevated his somewhat reckless 31-year-old son Prince Mohammed to become crown prince, and the White House is thrilled.
While we have been focused on the results of special elections, the ups and downs of the Russia investigation, and President Trump’s latest tweets, under the radar, a broad and consequential...
Do we have a worker shortage? Maybe.
After losing the most expensive congressional race in history in Georgia Tuesday, and a notching a close-but-no-cigar finish in a lower profile contest in South Carolina, Democrats are getting a lot...
NEW YORK — While we have been focused on the results of special elections, the ups and downs of the Russia investigation, and President Trump’s latest tweets, under the radar, a broad and...
The U.S. shoots down a Syrian fighter-bomber. Iran launches missiles into eastern Syria. Russia threatens to attack coalition aircraft west of the Euphrates. What is going on?
Anyone with human feelings is outraged by North Korea’s murder of Otto Warmbier.
A Denver dad says smartphones turned his two youngest sons into zombies. So he turned himself into a crusader.
Among the many things it does, the federal government is one of the nation’s largest lenders.
Words matter, journalists are fond of saying.
WASHINGTON — In 1859, when Manhattan still had many farms, near the Battery on the island’s southern tip The Great American Tea Company was launched.
With the left feverishly attempting to squash unwelcome speech on college campuses, with the president of the United States musing about tightening libel laws, with prominent liberals asserting that...
WASHINGTON — Kelley Paul had gone to bed Tuesday night as usual, with her cellphone set on “Do Not Disturb,” except for family and close friends whose calls would always go through.
All who are distraught at the state of U.S. politics should pay attention to the rise of French President Emanuel Macron.
I just finished writing a column about how the internet is vile and vicious and people have become poisonous vipers in the privacy of their basements.
Ever since Donald Trump’s election, a cottage industry of politicians, journalists, scholars and commentators has sought to understand what motivates Trump supporters.
“Contrary” does not quite capture Steve King’s astringency. The Iowa native and conservative congressman was born, appropriately, in Storm Lake, and carries turbulence with him.
Despair about Congress is as old as the nation itself. In 1789, less than three months into the First Congress, Rep.
Wednesday’s shooting at a congressional baseball practice was a ghastly example of the political polarization that is ripping this country apart.
Donald Trump, the erstwhile Democrat, independent and member of the Reform Party, finally has a fixed partisan identity.
The Trump administration is determined to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) — which created a single market from Mexico’s southern border to the Yukon —...
