Commentary

I just returned from a morning walk, and nearing home, I heard an insistent bird call. Curious which bird it was, I turned on the app I have from Corn...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It is an odd confession to make about a statistic, I realize, but then again I am an economist, so I am just going to go ahead: I lov...

It seems as though only one thing motivates Congress to act — the threat of elections. That’s why both the House and Senate have moved to pass a conti...

DALLAS (TNS) — School doesn’t begin again for a few weeks. But you wouldn’t know it looking at my phone. These days, returning to the classroom seems ...

Almost 15 months after Cameron Hamilton was fired for defending FEMA during a congressional hearing, the U.S. Senate confirmed him as FEMA's top admin...

Movies are back! (Again.) There have been stories in the recent past about how going to the movies was becoming a thing again — see “Barbenheimer” in ...

America’s affordability divide is increasingly visible in Americans’ biggest purchases. The wealthy may be doing just fine. It’s the Americans below t...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Hardly a day goes by that President Donald Trump doesn’t vow to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon and denounce the decade-...

Last month, the House passed the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025 with bipartisan support, as evidenced by a 308-117 vote. It will now move to the Sena...

The New York State Museum receives annual grant funding from the U.S. Geological Survey’s STATEMAP program, part of the Department of the Interior, wh...

Donald Trump’s chief negotiating strategy consists of keeping the other party guessing about what he might do next. As this pertains to Iran, the pres...

A 19th-century cartoon, “The Unrestrained Demon,” portrayed a terrifying sight: a skeletal monster racing through a city street, its skull-like head f...

Bandit, Tater and Duck are the newest horses in Sheriff Chad Anderson’s mounted patrol unit in Bates County, Missouri. Silver and the Lone Ranger they...

A quarter-millennium into the American experiment, some of our skepticism of big government has given way to populism and astounding numbers of regula...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There are a lot of jobs in the U.S. economy that pay miserably low wages. And there are a lot that offer a reasonable hourly rate but...

BALTIMORE (TNS) — I landed my first real, albeit minimum wage job at the tender age of 15, and one of my lasting memories was how the paycheck came wi...

DETROIT (TNS) — Donald Trump is running out of time to find a genuine solution that spares Republicans from the consequences of his war with Iran. The...

There’s no mystery in why Dr. Anthony Fauci strove to silence discussion about the origins of COVID-19 — he was in full CYA mode because the agency he...