Commentary

Eleven state and local governments that received a collective $45 million from the federal government to remove lead from houses were never flagged as...

Recent attention has focused on Greenland regarding Arctic strategy, a reminder that geography once treated as peripheral now sits squarely within the...

Despite the robust growth of state revenues in recent years, many of New York’s elected officials are pushing to further increase the tax burden on th...

What a difference a single year makes. The once-dominant push to radically reshape society in hopes of averting climate catastrophe has collapsed. Loo...

We need to talk about ICE. Many have tried pointing out the cruelty of recent immigration enforcement. Appeals to humanity often fall on stubborn ears...

Politics is the great leveler: It makes even the most inspired and insightful voices sound banal. In his hurriedly cobbled-together new song railing a...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The next election is not an existential event for the United States. Neither is the one after that — or the one after that. But that ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The economy is far too tight for many Americans — more about how to fix that in a minute — but first some good news: Household weal...

BOSTON (TNS) — Leah Foley is showing what a difference a good U.S. Attorney can make, embarrassing Massachusetts officials by uncovering another major...

Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. A Los Angeles advocacy group that sued the city twice was simultaneously being funded by the city itself. S...

Public workers’ pensions are not a political piggy bank. The money belongs to the workers and retirees who contributed to it and earned it over decade...

Who knew we would ever be celebrating that temperatures reached 20 degrees? I mean, FINALLY reached 20 degrees again. Those days sure feel warm after ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Put me down as an AI optimist. Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the economy and make Americans richer, healthie...

Midterms are rarely kind to the president’s party, and with balloting just nine months off, the storm clouds look particularly threatening for Republi...

The federal government gives billions of dollars in research grants to universities every year, but not all of it directly funds scientific inquiry. M...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Last Friday's release of a few million more Epstein-related documents came with gruesome and disgusting revelations about the sexua...

Alex Pretti wasn’t killed while “protesting.” This is a common description of what he was doing on a Minneapolis street Saturday, when a confrontation...

There are moments when a nation must confront a reality it would rather avoid. This is one of them. The killing of Alex Pretti was not a tragic misjud...