Commentary

New York should not return to the days of solving SUNY’s fiscal problems on the backs of students and parents. A decade ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and sta...

NEW YORK (TNS) — If you’re like me and look forward to snow about as much as you look forward to outpatient surgery, then recent winters have been alm...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — More than half the nation’s Republicans see Donald Trump as a “person of faith,” meaning some kind of serious Christian, which stri...

Anyone following how weak and passive the U.S. has been in the face of provocations from our adversaries in the Middle East might conclude that the se...

It was a page from the authoritarian state playbook: A high-ranking government official falls ill, yet the development is kept under wraps. Questions ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — I have never been a visionary — or even, since I have two eyes, a double visionary — but I recently read a newspaper report about dri...

The shroud is coming off elite academia and America is not pleased with what it’s seeing. Its leaders have told us that genocidal antisemitism is too ...

The Veterans Health Administration gave energy vendors $68 million in prepayments that didn’t comply with federal law, a new audit found. The prepayme...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — This year’s presidential election campaign is likely to be remembered as a year in which voters pondered a rematch no one really wa...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — I was as competitive then as I am now. I’d fling myself across the basement to save a point. I’d throw a fit if I pocketed the 8-ba...

With critical elections coming in 2024, it’s time to talk about a pressing issue in several states: a lack of poll workers. Prior to 2020, many took p...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — As the fighting in Ukraine continues, some representatives in Congress, primarily Republicans, oppose additional financial and mili...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s a new year but the same old mess in Congress. Instead of a fresh start, lawmakers return next week to their stale, dead-end ar...

ALBANY — A coalition of good government groups is urging a New York panel to prioritize transparency and public input as it draws new congressional ma...

We are about to embark on what might be one of the wildest years in the history of American politics, and it may end up merely as a prelude. If 2024 i...

Hochul vetoes bills that would drive employers from the state. In the rare good news department, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ended the year by vetoing ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — As the war in Ukraine nears its second anniversary, there are signs that both Russia and the West are beginning to look toward the ...

The governor gets the Legislature to minimize transparency of limited liability corporations as part of the year-end rush to sign or veto legislation....