Commentary

The federal government gives billions of dollars in research grants to universities every year, but not all of it directly funds scientific inquiry. M...

Technology and tactics have changed dramatically since Abraham Lincoln was training Whig Party leaders, though his strategy for winning elections stil...

Alex Pretti wasn’t killed while “protesting.” This is a common description of what he was doing on a Minneapolis street Saturday, when a confrontation...

There are moments when a nation must confront a reality it would rather avoid. This is one of them. The killing of Alex Pretti was not a tragic misjud...

Every election cycle, Washington convinces itself that this will be the moment voters finally come home. Republicans think frustrated Americans will s...

This is what victory feels like, right? The efforts of brave Minnesotans have resulted in Greg Bovino getting removed from his position and President ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has issued a statement about the 99-mile Constitution Pipeline, which would carry natural ...

It should come as little surprise that Bill and Hillary Clinton have defied subpoenas to testify in the U.S. House probe of Jeffrey Epstein. But the f...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — “Fraud” doesn’t begin to cover it. Under Gov. Tim Walz’s watch, Minnesota has become the hub of an exorbitant federal fund money-la...

Save the date. Be sure to write down Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, the date for the general election, on your calendar. Re-elect Joe Sempolinski, your state ...

ALBANY — New York State added just 1,008 new residents last year as its post-pandemic recovery ground to a near standstill, newly released Census Bure...

In 1624, John Donne, an English poet and cleric, wrote a prose meditation with words that we know as the poem, "No Man Is an Island." The often-quoted...

The State Department did not have consistent oversight requirements for $5.7 billion it contributed to the United Nations and other international orga...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There is a natural human tendency to assume that your generation has it harder than everyone else. Even by those standards, however, ...

Budget adoption season is underway at the State Capitol, which means, first and foremost, that joint Senate-Assembly public hearings on Gov. Kathy Hoc...

The company administering taxpayer-funded health insurance for New York state employees overpaid hospitals by $19.3 million, according to a new audit ...

Instead of using tariffs, I wish President Trump would have gone directly to the fundamental points of disagreement with the European community and NA...

The delusion that America was somehow “great” during and before the periods leading up to the Second World War is just that ... a delusion. Unable to ...