Excerpts from the river journey section of Gen. Rufus Putnam’s journal: Friday, March 29, 1787 Launched our great boat named the Union Galley (Different writings call the flatboat by many names, including the Adventure Galley and Mayflower). She was intended to carry 24 tons ... the same ...

Fraud in government programs is often treated like an urban legend -- something that happens in faraway blue cities run by corrupt political machines. But the truth is more unsettling: Some of the most brazen theft of taxpayer money is happening in places governed by Republicans, right under ...

It is China's unprecedented presence in our Western Hemisphere, not Iran's "aspirations" for nuclear weapons, that is the much bigger threat to the United States. For starters we do not need to be waging a war or continuing a war to stop the "aspirations" of the Iranian people. It was made ...