A letter in the June 1 issue (“Don’t tie paying our debts to controlling future spending”) tries to argue that our government has no alternative but to continue to spend ever more than the …

Republicans insisting their support for addressing our national debt must be tied to spending cuts is both hypocritical and disastrous.Candidate Trump promised he, as president, would rid the United …

Four score and 13 years ago, I came into the vale of tears, the product of Mary McMonagle Forbes and Arthur Forbes of Germantown. The ensuing five decades all contained periods of hardship, despair …