Opinion/Columns

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted by a 215-208 margin, with four Republicans joining in the majority, to approve a war powers “concur...

BOSTON (TNS) — President Trump’s decision to leave a long, aggressive interview with the slanted, outdated “Meet the Press” show drew the usual outrag...

Former Vice President Mike Pence is not merely promoting a new book. He is making a final argument for a vision of conservatism that he believes is sl...

WATERVILLE, Maine (TNS) — Since 2016, when Donald Trump shattered the Democrats’ blue wall by winning working-class voters across the Midwest, a cotta...

Legislation that increases New York’s pharmacy costs by hundreds of millions of dollars annually was passed in Albany’s end-of-session rush and now aw...