Commentary

It’s no surprise that Gov. Kathy Hochul opened last week’s State of the State message to the Legislature with a focus on affordability. “I am proud to...

It may seem astonishing today, but the most famous line in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial — o...

Politicians all along the ideological spectrum are in agreement on the big issue currently animating Americans. Stuff is too expensive. President Dona...

BOSTON (TNS) — Democrats have to bring more to the table in 2028 than a robust hatred for Donald Trump and animosity for Republicans in general if the...

Over and over again, we’re told to be outraged. An individual is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He is later released. And befo...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Prominent Republicans insist on treating President Donald Trump like a child or a clueless old man, telling Americans that he does no...

The federal government often does not have enough time to ensure that oil and gas companies are properly reporting the royalties they owe from drillin...

The shooting death of Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has quickly become a rallying point in the broader political battle over immigrati...

It's Nov. 3, 2026, Election Day. Avoiding the lines at the polls, you patriotically fill out your mail-in ballot and take it to a post office well bef...

ALBANY — For a third time the state Health Department has postponed releasing records related to a disputed $1 billion Medicaid contract, saying it ne...

There’s a time-honored tradition of U.S. presidents, whose electoral fortunes tend to rise or fall with the state of the economy, grumbling about chai...

The federal government is unable to verify that $5.8 billion in rental assistance paid to more than 204,000 recipients in 2024 was not fraudulent, acc...

Even government programs can get strangled by red tape. Think back to 2021. That’s when President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and J...

As a concept, “affordability” has become a popular buzzword for policymakers. Everyone says they want to deliver it for their constituents — especiall...

While Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence turned the smoldering embers of rebellion into the glorious fireworks of independence and revolut...

Donald Trump is the brass-tacks president the world needs now — a rare leader who prizes tangible results over empty slogans. Trump’s opponents cast h...

Minneapolis remained on edge as demonstrators took to the streets to protest of the fatal shooting of a woman at the hands of federal immigration offi...

On Jan. 8, 1991, I landed in Saudi Arabia for a year-long military tour as the area security officer of the Eastern Province of that country. I learne...