Commentary

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The on-again, off-again peace deal with Iran is on again. President Donald Trump is taking a leap of faith that the pact will normalize relations betw...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There are two processes that we cannot escape: aging and math. This applies not only to human beings but also to large government soc...

NEW YORK (TNS) — A deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is set for signature on Friday, and Donald Trump is already congratulating himself on being the...

We like to associate the law with justice — protecting the innocent and punishing the wrongdoers. But sometimes our laws punish the innocent and prote...

Picking up litter is a special hobby of mine. If you live in my area, you have probably seen me out with my trash bag. What began as the simple wish t...

Government has never been known as a model of efficiency. Yet a new report from the Government Accountability Office should make even the most hardene...

When we look out across the rolling hills of Allegany County, it is easy to see only a beautiful, quiet countryside. But to hydrologists and geographe...

For more than a century, Catholic Charities of Buffalo has stood beside our neighbors in their most difficult moments — offering not just assistance, ...

A bill to replace the words "mother" and "father" in state law has advanced in the New York State Assembly. Mother would be replaced with “gestating p...

Starbucks is getting a “venti” sized handout from the state of Tennessee to build a new corporate office in Nashville. The company will receive $30 mi...

It has become increasingly hard to use the word integrity when describing college athletics, and much of that is the NCAA's own doing. Unimaginably, t...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Reports of a Republican congressional revolt — like Mark Twain once famously said of a false newspaper report of his death — are gr...

I have watched other people with their pets and their shared lives seem simple compared to mine! I suppose it’s not really true, because when you shar...