Commentary

NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s not always obvious which of the multitude of species of bacteria riding around in us should be classified as germs and attacked,...

Every Philosophy 101 student knows the dilemma. If given the chance to kill Adolf Hitler years before his tyrannical ambitions unleashed death and des...

The great American author Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” Once again this summer, I am happy to be joining my co...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — I’m a finance professor at UCLA, so let’s talk finance. Which numbers are more meaningful to you? Having $50 to $100 cash in your ...

As President Donald Trump and Congress fumble through his One Big Beautiful Bill on the budget for fiscal year 2025-26, they have been ignoring the ma...

At the Right Thinkers meeting on June 16, Ginger Schroder stated that every Democrat she's talked to is totally in favor of massive amounts of illegal...

In Minnesota, a deranged gunman broke into a legislator’s house and shot her and her husband, killing both of them. He also killed their dog. The alle...

"Medical Aid in Dying Goes Down a Dangerous Path" in Thursday's edition of the Olean Times Herald has it all wrong. The Medical Aid in Dying Act is on...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist assemblyman from Queens, is in prime position to be elected the next mayor of New York City. R...

As the reality of President Donald Trump’s second term sinks in, many disillusioned voters are now saying, “This isn’t what I voted for.” The first fe...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Much of New York was under a state of emergency this past week because of a blistering heat wave. State and local authorities made cl...

Republicans, conservatives and Trumpers were horrified to learn earlier this month — in the wake of the pro-illegal immigration L.A. riots, no less — ...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — Earlier this month the state Senate passed the deceptively named Medical Aid in Dying Act, which had passed earlier in the Assembly. ...

You don’t realize how much you depend on your back for daily tasks until you’re dealing with an injury or pain. I suppose it’s the same for arms, legs...

It’s hard to believe that it’s nearly two decades since Gov. George Pataki left office in 2006 — the last New York governor to do so not because he ha...

ALBANY — Last month’s local school district votes were notable for what was missing from most ballots — propositions to purchase zero-emission school ...

DETROIT (TNS) — One of my early reporting assignments at The Detroit News was to wait for a couple of frigid January days in 1981 outside the Redford ...

The Allegany County treasurer is an elected official who takes a sworn oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of th...