Commentary

SYRACUSE (TNS) — As a mother and as a New York state Assembly member, nothing weighs on me more heavily than the responsibility we share to keep our c...

Ask a high school student about the last book they read, and you may be disappointed to learn they never cracked open "The Catcher in the Rye" or trud...

As chancellor of the Veterans Affairs Acquisition Academy, Judith Dawson’s job was to teach other VA employees the proper way to hire contractors for ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The Spanish Civil War is distinctive, even among other civil wars, for its barbarism, and in particular the personal nature of the ...

The social media age has made it possible for any person, at any time, to broadcast and publish their thoughts to the entire world with the push of a ...

ALBANY — The Hochul administration’s move to shrink the Essential Plan in response to federal budget cuts has exposed a surprising reality: For the pa...

I was shocked by Wednesday’s shooting of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk. It’s devastating that anyone could be so brutally slain. I was also s...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (TNS) — Twenty-four years ago, America came under attack when planes struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It was an assault ...

OREM, Utah — A 22-year-old Utah man who was arrested and booked on murder charges in the assassination of Charlie Kirk held deep disdain for the conse...

ALBANY (TNS) — If Gritty and Seth Rogen had a love child, the result might look something like Frankie Focus. Gritty, for those who don't know, is the...

Thursday marked the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that shook the nation and changed the world. Nearly 3,000 people lost their liv...

There is only one appropriate reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk and that is horror and anger at the taking of a human life. We live in a nation w...

In a ruling likely to go down in history as a shameful expression of anti-immigrant prejudice, the Supreme Court has allowed ICE agents to re-start “r...

Like some 1890s redux, are we as a society feeling uppity against monopolies — Big Railroads replaced by Big Tech — are we about to bring out the pitc...

NEW YORK (TNS) — President Donald Trump’s second term is barreling ahead with the political momentum typical of a first term — and it shows no outward...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Let’s play, “Who said it, and when?” “…the American people have accepted centralization of government, regimentation of activities...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TNS) — On Aug. 28, a 20-something opened fire on an opening day Mass for students at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. Tw...

The nonprofit running New York’s 9/11 memorial operated at a loss of $19 million in 2024 and had to use $4.5 million of public funds to stay afloat, b...