Commentary

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration canceled development on a new rocket launcher after already spending $1.4 billion on the project. Th...

There is no unilateral action that will bring the U.S.-led conflict with Iran to termination, and while both sides are incentivized in their own ways ...

There's an old ploy of dropping bad news late on a Friday. The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision took it to a cynical new low ...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (TNS) — No morning ritual is safe from climate alarm. In June, the journal Nature declared that coffee is “critically threatene...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — For the past decade, Democratic progressives have regularly challenged the party’s establishment, with intermittent success. This y...

Theories can be useful. But they’re even more useful if they survive real-world scrutiny. In 1920, Congress passed the Jones Act. It mandates that onl...

Cattaraugus County Legislator Brenda Hanson has commented on the failure of the Alle-Catt wind project to provide any public benefits. I’d like to off...

As of June 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was paying to store $2.9 million of rotten “super cereal” and $10 million of fo...

The nation has been consumed by gerrymandering madness, and New York lawmakers, sadly, are eager to join in. Gerrymandering, the drawing of districts ...

Recently, a nurse told me she had to choose between paying for her husband’s surgery and putting a new roof on their home. “We’re praying for no rain,...

CHICAGO (TNS) — If we want to consider what’s possible for Ukraine, the people of Poland are living proof. They gained freedom from communist rule at ...

The month of July is recognized as National Park and Recreation Month and it’s a designation certainly worthy of attention in Western New York and the...

Ideas have consequences. Bad ideas have victims. The idea that fossil fuels are destroying the planet and wind and solar will save it is a bad idea — ...

LONDON (TNS) — There’s a simple statistic that often stops people in their tracks. It is this: Reading for pleasure as a child is the factor that stud...

Modern politics in many quarters is more performance art than serious policy, a never-ending quest to generate votes rather than address substantive i...

There is a version of “running government like a business” that appeals to the average American. Lean operations. Accountable managers. No waste. Resu...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Democratic establishment, shaken by the rise of progressive socialists, is right to wonder where this wave might lead. The simi...

Iran has broken the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, attacking Gulf shipping, refusing to grant IAEA access to nuclear sites, and stating it wil...