Opinion

The city of Oakland, Calif., can serve as a poster child for how not to run municipal garbage service: it spent $2 million in 2024 to issue citations ...

LONDON (TNS) — One reason we tend to lose cognitive abilities as we get older is that we often stop putting ourselves in situations where we’re forced...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The annual report of the Social Security board of trustees, issued last month, has prompted Congress to return to one of its favori...

Will the nation’s biannual ritual of moving the clock backward and forward an hour soon be a thing of the past? Perhaps, but it’s no sure thing. The H...

Since 2019, school districts across 24 states and Puerto Rico have lost $225 million to fraud confirmed by the U.S. Department of Education inspector ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The median house price in Nantucket, Massachusetts, is nearly $4 million. It was just $500,000 in 1995. This sounds like a stunning i...

For almost a decade, the federal government’s budget for Antarctic research included little money for actual scientific inquiry, and a boatload of cas...

Good morning, yesterday You wake up and time has slipped away… The shadows of misty yesteryears The good times and the bad you've seen And all the oth...

How often in life have you prepared to tackle a task only to realize you don’t have the right tool for the job? For instance, I used to think a simple...

Remember when planning a summer day meant glancing out the window to see if it might rain? Summer now comes with a checklist. What’s the temperature? ...

MINNEAPOLIS (TNS) — “The Odyssey” is on its own odyssey. The epic poem from ancient Greece about the mythical Ithacan King Odysseus’ ordeal getting ho...

NEW YORK (TNS) — In the push to regulate artificial intelligence, a dangerous idea is gaining ground in Washington: handing the government ownership s...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In an obituary in The Atlantic for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, Robert Fontaine relates the following quotation from the late Republic...

The Pentagon has a well-deserved reputation for erring on the side of secrecy when classifying documents. Now it wants even more power to hide informa...

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...