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This being my birthday month and all, I note that in 2024 — the last year data is available — the life expectancy in the United States rose to 79, the highest mark in American history. And they expect ...

The author, center, recently made time for a round of golf with friends Becky Boren and Susan Lucas. “A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.” — Winnie the ...

The crippling snow and ice storm that swept through our region recently coupled with record freezing temperatures presents many challenges to people shoveling and plowing and just trying to stay warm.

An Editor at Large: Demagogues on both sides are undermining public trust and heightening the risk of further violence following a second shooting in Minneapolis, MN ...

Haitian Temporary Protected Status is scheduled to end Feb. 3, putting work authorization for thousands of essential Massachusetts workers at risk. TPS for Haitians was established following the ...

The start of a new year is traditionally a time to reflect on past failures and make resolutions for doing better. Here’s a suggestion for members of Congress: They should resolve to start asserting ...

New Jersey recently handed out almost a million dollars in grants to help schools go phone-free. Let me say that again: We are spending nearly a million dollars to teach children to put something in a ...

In a 1934 Fireside Chat, President Franklin D. Roosevelt explained that his new national economic program required “stepping on the toes” of “the comparative few who seek to gain position or riches by ...

We have a huge health care problem in the United States. We need to offer health insurance to all our citizens to improve our health outcomes, but the costs of entitlement programs such as Medicare, ...