Opinion

Loan forgiveness made students worse off, then and now
Columns, Commentary, Opinion
By ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
Jun 28, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — Student loans are a special kind of debt. They are an investment to increase someone’s future earnings, though they must be paid back...
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Health Matters: Hospice care provides needed support
Columns, Commentary, Opinion
By MARTI TILLINGER 
Jun 26, 2026
A year ago I became a HomeCare & Hospice volunteer in Allegany. I enjoy knowing that I make a positive impact on the lives of the patients I visit and...
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Congressional pushback against anti-science
Commentary, Opinion
Jun 25, 2026
For about a decade, hundreds of deep-sea buoys off America’s coasts have been monitoring the conditions of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The stream...
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Republicans test a threat to November’s elections
Columns, Commentary, Opinion
Jun 25, 2026
WASHINGTON (TNS) — This past month in California, it was business as usual. In November, it could cause a national crisis. “IT” is the state’s excruci...
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Mamdani, Marxists and the rest of us
Commentary, Opinion
By ANDREW WALWORTH RealClearPolitics 
Jun 25, 2026
When New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani equated the lobbying group AIPAC to “monsters” in a blistering get-out-the vote speech last week in Brooklyn, ...
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Waste of the Day: ICE wasted millions on food
Commentary, Opinion
Jun 24, 2026
A tiny contractor’s disastrous time running an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in El Paso came to an end this March. Now, a Gov...
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Columns, Opinion
By PARMY OLSON Bloomberg Opinion 
Jun 24, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — Spinning a good narrative is critical to selling artificial intelligence these days. But the leaders of today’s biggest labs are givi...
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Turning good, bad and unexpected into adventures
Columns, Commentary, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Jun 24, 2026
I would say it’s already been an adventurous summer — except in reality, it just started with June 21, the longest day of the year. I try not to think...
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China isn’t invincible and CRINK is not unified
Columns, Commentary, Opinion
By JOSEPH KIM The Dallas Morning News 
Jun 23, 2026
DALLAS (TNS) — The authoritarian challenge is real and growing. I have seen this in my research at the George W. Bush Institute and experienced it fir...
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America at 250: A different kind of revolution
Columns, Commentary, Obituaries, ...
By GENE PISASALE RealClearPolitics 
Jun 23, 2026
“…everything tending to establish substantial and permanent order, in the affairs of a country, to increase the total mass of industry… is ultimately ...
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