Opinion

NEW YORK (TNS) — Last week, I found myself in a situation that could soon be familiar to a lot more Americans: sliding into a CT scanner with a smatte...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Once again, the Social Security system’s managers are warning that the nation’s main retirement fund is running out of money so tha...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There are two processes that we cannot escape: aging and math. This applies not only to human beings but also to large government soc...

Soccer fans stranded in the New Jersey marshes wasn’t the image the World Cup organizers were going for, but it’s their own fault that’s what they got...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — New York's Comrade Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is ready to seize the means of production, starting with the landlords. As always with co...

NEW YORK (TNS) — A deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is set for signature on Friday, and Donald Trump is already congratulating himself on being the...

We like to associate the law with justice — protecting the innocent and punishing the wrongdoers. But sometimes our laws punish the innocent and prote...

Picking up litter is a special hobby of mine. If you live in my area, you have probably seen me out with my trash bag. What began as the simple wish t...

Government has never been known as a model of efficiency. Yet a new report from the Government Accountability Office should make even the most hardene...

When we look out across the rolling hills of Allegany County, it is easy to see only a beautiful, quiet countryside. But to hydrologists and geographe...

For more than a century, Catholic Charities of Buffalo has stood beside our neighbors in their most difficult moments — offering not just assistance, ...

A bill to replace the words "mother" and "father" in state law has advanced in the New York State Assembly. Mother would be replaced with “gestating p...

Starbucks is getting a “venti” sized handout from the state of Tennessee to build a new corporate office in Nashville. The company will receive $30 mi...

It has become increasingly hard to use the word integrity when describing college athletics, and much of that is the NCAA's own doing. Unimaginably, t...

The most encouraging redistricting news of the year came from two states that did nothing. Illinois lawmakers adjourned without drawing new congressio...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Reports of a Republican congressional revolt — like Mark Twain once famously said of a false newspaper report of his death — are gr...

I have watched other people with their pets and their shared lives seem simple compared to mine! I suppose it’s not really true, because when you shar...

For years, New Yorkers have been stuck paying some of the highest auto insurance premiums in the country. Families already struggling with the cost of...