Commentary

Loan forgiveness made students worse off, then and now
Commentary, Opinion, Opinion/Columns
By ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
Jun 28, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — Student loans are a special kind of debt. They are an investment to increase someone’s future earnings, though they must be paid back...
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Congressional pushback against anti-science
Commentary, Opinion
Jun 25, 2026
For about a decade, hundreds of deep-sea buoys off America’s coasts have been monitoring the conditions of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The stream...
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Republicans test a threat to November’s elections
Commentary, Opinion, Opinion/Columns
Jun 25, 2026
WASHINGTON (TNS) — This past month in California, it was business as usual. In November, it could cause a national crisis. “IT” is the state’s excruci...
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Mamdani, Marxists and the rest of us
Commentary, Opinion
By ANDREW WALWORTH RealClearPolitics 
Jun 25, 2026
When New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani equated the lobbying group AIPAC to “monsters” in a blistering get-out-the vote speech last week in Brooklyn, ...
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Waste of the Day: ICE wasted millions on food
Commentary, Opinion
Jun 24, 2026
A tiny contractor’s disastrous time running an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in El Paso came to an end this March. Now, a Gov...
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Turning good, bad and unexpected into adventures
Commentary, Opinion, Opinion/Columns
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Jun 24, 2026
I would say it’s already been an adventurous summer — except in reality, it just started with June 21, the longest day of the year. I try not to think...
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China isn’t invincible and CRINK is not unified
Commentary, Opinion, Opinion/Columns
By JOSEPH KIM The Dallas Morning News 
Jun 23, 2026
DALLAS (TNS) — The authoritarian challenge is real and growing. I have seen this in my research at the George W. Bush Institute and experienced it fir...
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America at 250: A different kind of revolution
Commentary, Obituaries, Opinion, ...
By GENE PISASALE RealClearPolitics 
Jun 23, 2026
“…everything tending to establish substantial and permanent order, in the affairs of a country, to increase the total mass of industry… is ultimately ...
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Commentary, Opinion, Opinion/Columns
By MIKE BLUMENTHAL 
Jun 19, 2026
Most folks heard about the nearly $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” that emerged from President Donald Trump’s settlement with his own Justice De...
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The only man who wants you to win
Commentary, Opinion, Opinion/Columns
By DERRICK MORGAN 
Jun 19, 2026
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Earlier this year a short, viral video stopped me in my tracks. It featured Steve Harvey, who said your father is really the only m...
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Juneteenth celebrates America’s ideals
Commentary, Opinion
Jun 19, 2026
Juneteenth is a fitting to prelude to America’s 250th birthday. In January 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which is often ...
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Talking across the divide in our nation
Commentary, Opinion, Opinion/Columns
By J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics 
Jun 19, 2026
How we see politics reveals a lot about who we are. But it is less akin to a Rorschach ink blot than one of those reversible images, like the drawing ...
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Cholesterol guidelines get welcome overhaul
Commentary, Opinion, Opinion/Columns
By LISA JARVIS Bloomberg Opinion 
Jun 18, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — Last week, I found myself in a situation that could soon be familiar to a lot more Americans: sliding into a CT scanner with a smatte...
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Needed: A bipartisan approach to fix Social Security
Commentary, Opinion, Opinion/Columns
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News 
Jun 18, 2026
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Once again, the Social Security system’s managers are warning that the nation’s main retirement fund is running out of money so tha...
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Weeks later, New York state budget still growing
Commentary, Opinion, Opinion/Columns
By SEN. TOM O'MARA 
Jun 17, 2026
That didn’t take long. I had earlier noted that the recently enacted 2026-27 state budget was forced through and enacted under a process that’s broken...
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