Even if Republicans in the House chamber hadn’t begun shouting “Four more years,” it would have been obvious that President Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address […]

One would think that the State of the Union address would be the ultimate barometer of America’s current state of politics, but it’s not. This year, that […]

The first time Mee Cee Baker went to the Pennsylvania Farm Show, in Harrisburg, she was a 12-year-old 4-H member whose pig got loose during the market […]

To get onstage at the last Democratic debate, a candidate had to have received contributions from at least 225,000 donors. That disqualified Mike Bloomberg. He has only […]

Just because the Senate is about to acquit President Trump of charges Republicans believed never rose to the level of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” don’t think Democrats […]

As it marks its centennial this month, the League of Women Voters shows how difficult it is for a political organization born and bred in nonpartisanship to […]

Surely you remember the “basket of deplorables.” That was Hillary Clinton’s 2016 characterization of some Donald Trump supporters. Observers saw it as a major gaffe, and conservatives […]

For football fans, the biggest day of the year is over. For pythons in Florida, their days are still numbered. In a grotesque twist on the Super […]

As the 2020 election ramps up, student loan debt has emerged as a hot-button issue on the campaign trail, with several presidential hopefuls releasing plans to solve […]

Every Wednesday morning, James McDaniel sits along the South Main Street portion of U.S. Highway 11 (in Lexington, Va.) with a healthy stack of The News-Gazette beside […]