Commentary

When will enough be enough? Last year I traveled across both Canada and the United States, and nowhere did I see gas for under $2 a gallon. Perhaps so...

I am always amazed when someone says libraries are not needed anymore, that everything is online. Obviously they have not been in a library lately. Re...

The American blockade in the Strait of Hormuz alters the strategic equation in the Iran conflict. It also has the attention of our enemies. Peace talk...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The biggest losers in Sunday’s extraordinary election in Hungary, aside from its four-term autocratic prime minister Viktor Orbán...

I find myself lately agreeing with Meghan Trainor when she sang, “All About That Bass.” I was always about wanting to hear the bass. Like many teens, ...

The seven governors of the Federal Reserve are supported by a staff of more than 3,000 economists who analyze current fiscal conditions. But, accordin...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Cities such as New York and Chicago are in deep financial trouble. Broadly speaking, they have two options: Make the difficult but ap...

BOSTON (TNS) — Just when you thought Democrats couldn’t sink any lower, along comes retread Kamala Harris to kiss the ring of Al Sharpton and adopt a ...

Twenty-two years ago, the U.S. was at war, just as it is today, and a president visited the pope at the Vatican. President George W. Bush’s meeting wi...

(TNS) — Vice President JD Vance and hundreds of expert-level U.S. officials arrived in Islamabad last weekend with a sliver of hope that a deal to end...

OLEAN — The Olean Public Library announced that its 2027 proposed budget is available on the library’s website, oleanlibrary.org/about/administration/...

DALLAS (TNS) — The headlines this week are bursting with news of a fragile cease-fire in the Iran war. Pundits and politicians claim it's either an hi...

If you read the headlines, it’s easy to be discouraged about the American economy. If you follow the trend lines, it’s difficult not to be more optimi...

America often prepares for the war it has just fought. Today, the Pentagon is preparing for the next war, in real time, under fire, against the clock....

The most important number in the United States is $193.6 trillion. That’s how much extra money will be needed to fund Social Security and Medicare ind...

Student test scores aren’t looking good, and schools aren’t being held accountable for poor results. That’s not even considering whether the right thi...

For more than 200 years, public health has reshaped what is possible in the United States — adding decades to life expectancy and significantly improv...

Among the issues being negotiated in the overdue state budget is a reversal of state pension reforms enacted 14 years ago to rein in fast-growing reti...