"This is a story of America," Martha MacCallum writes in the author's note to "The Book of Valor: America's Story of Survival, Gallantry & Grace." "It is one thread woven from our Pilgrim heritage in Plymouth to a World War II triple ace in the skies over Berlin; to a rescue hero in Viet…

WYTHEVILLE, Virginia ― Most people meet this town zooming past it at 70 mph.

A recent news story suggesting that a green light has been given for the sale of the Camp Menotomy property on Lake Winnipesaukee to a private developer included a number of incorrect statements. As a member of the Meredith Board of Selectmen, I believe I am in a good position to offer some …

LAMBS GROVE, Iowa ― Move over, soccer moms, forget about NASCAR dads and dismiss even the "bunch of childless cat ladies" that JD Vance identified ― all shorthands for critical voting groups in past elections. The term with a powerful punch in this year's midterm congressional election is "d…

EDGEWOOD, Pa. ― The Evans family threw a Halloween party every year in their backyard on Linden Avenue. Neighbor Jeannine Fisher told WPXI that she remembers "tons of people and kids" there. She also remembers the first time she met Idris Evans: He helped carry her groceries from down the st…

NEW WATERFORD, Ohio ― See how they run. Former Sen. Sherrod Brown is running like an old man in a hurry.

HOMER CITY, Pennsylvania ― Eighteen months ago, Shawn Steffee stood in a field in Indiana County and watched the smokestacks of Pennsylvania's largest coal-fired power plant fold into a cloud of dust, then told anyone who would listen that the wreckage was not a funeral.

WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia ― The governor of Virginia was relieved there was no school in the colonial capital. No newspaper, either.

SHIPPINGPORT, Pa. ― The last time that I stood on these grounds along the Ohio River in Beaver County was 1976, 19 years after the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States opened here.

Barney Frank, the irascible but indispensable liberal lawmaker from Massachusetts who died this spring, was never known as a man of few words. Yet the opening of his book, issued posthumously just the other day, is worthy of the conservative Massachusetts president Calvin Coolidge, who gave …

One of the greatest honors for me as executive councilor for District 1 is representing the towns around Lake Winnipesaukee, one of New Hampshire’s most stellar natural resources. My district also covers many other beautiful lakes and ponds in the Lakes Region and the North Country. Those wa…

WARREN ― It's been four years, an eternity in American political history, since I last drove along a backwoods byway from here to Lebanon, New Hampshire, and contemplated what that route told me about the destination of American conservatism.

ARTHURDALE, West Virginia ― The road into this quiet Preston County community gives little warning that it was once the setting for one of the New Deal's most ambitious, and most debated, experiments.