Commentary

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...

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...

It’s a lot easier to waste someone else’s money. Before the recent tragic shooting, the biggest story out of Minnesota involved massive fraud. Content...

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...

In her 2017 book "Democracy in Chains" historian Nancy MacLean chronicled the deep history of the radical right’s stealth plan for America, tracing it...

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...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Who knew that by "America First," President Donald Trump meant all of the Americas? In puzzling over that question, at least I've g...

We will soon be hearing more from Gov. Kathy Hochul on where she intends to take this state in the year ahead. Next week’s State of the State message ...

The auto industry is headed back to where it should have stayed in the quest to put a cleaner fleet on the road: hybrids. Automakers are rapidly backi...

Americans have already turned the calendar to 2026, but it will take years to pay back the debt incurred by the federal initiatives listed in Sen. Ran...

Sometimes, I learn new things through a simple reading of daily devotions. If you aren’t familiar with a devotion, these can be a single piece or a se...

The nonprofit New Opportunities, Inc. used $2.8 million in taxpayer funds meant for low-income families’ heating bills on its own operating expenses, ...