Opinion/Columns

Susan Noel, the former clerk and treasurer of Washington, Oklahoma, allegedly used public funds to buy a puppy, sofa, vacuum cleaner, electric dog cli...

There is a version of “running government like a business” that appeals to the average American. Lean operations. Accountable managers. No waste. Resu...

Social Security is now just six years away from insolvency, according to the latest annual assessment. Many in Congress might like to keep on ignoring...

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...

A cup of tea can bring peacefulness. Peacefulness. That’s one of many virtues my students practiced this year. There were lots of days we sat in silen...

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...

Bruce Blakeman, Republican candidate for governor of New York state, along with the candidates for lieutenant governor and comptroller, joined state S...

I was fortunate to grow up in this beautiful city, and encounter so many kind people over the years. So it was no surprise to go to the city meeting a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“…everything tending to establish substantial and permanent order, in the affairs of a country, to increase the total mass of industry… is ultimately ...

I’m originally from Michigan where, at least in pro football, the Detroit Lions were king. When I heard the Buffalo Jills, the former cheerleading squ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Something is breaking in farm country, and the warning signs are growing harder to ignore. The clearest indicator arrived this spring...

Most folks heard about the nearly $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” that emerged from President Donald Trump’s settlement with his own Justice De...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Earlier this year a short, viral video stopped me in my tracks. It featured Steve Harvey, who said your father is really the only m...

How we see politics reveals a lot about who we are. But it is less akin to a Rorschach ink blot than one of those reversible images, like the drawing ...