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During a normal Major League Baseball season, by mid-July fans would be anticipating the annual All-Star Game.

What spoils even more evening meals than robocalls?

Each spring and summer, when the Mississippi begins to rise, we start to hear from folks who think it will change course into the Atchafalaya, flooding half of south Louisiana.

All presidents must deal with things they did not expect FDR had the Great Depression and World War II. Kennedy had the Cuban Missile Crisis. George H. W. Bush had Saddam Hussein. And Donald Trump has had COVID-19.

Dear pandemic-battered readers,
As you try adapting to the New Normal, just hope no diehards are waiting to confuse you with a plethora of ADDITIONAL configurations.

On Twitter the other day someone did what a lot of people have been doing lately: Comparing levels of oppression.

In case you missed it, 106 people were shot in Chicago last weekend. That’s not a typo — 106.
If mainstream news organizations still covered the news, instead of only the news that serves or refutes an agenda, we might have heard more.

Oil fever struck the Louisiana prairies with a vengeance in the summer of 1902, when the Southern Number Four well showed, in the words of the Jennings Daily Record, that it “now appears that a gusher can be secured … just as often as a hole is p

What you think about removing Confederate statues has less to do with your opinions about race and more with how you perceive the motivation behind removing them in the first place.

The personal finance website WalletHub recently released its ranking of the “patriotism” of all 50 states.