Opinion/Columns

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...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s easy to understand why so many graduates are booing commencement speakers who tell them how great AI is. They face a brutal job ...

As Silicon Valley pours hundreds of billions of dollars into an artificial intelligence arms race, a parallel battle is unfolding over something far l...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Could there be a better metaphor for the plight of the out-of-power Democratic Party than the fact that it's now a week into debati...

Fifteen years ago, during the political convulsion known as “Occupy Wall Street,” I wrote a column for the Daily Inter Lake declaring: “Don’t be afrai...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — From Indiana to Texas, President Donald Trump has been throwing his political weight around, using his clout to end the careers of ...

Maine’s largest ski resort has yet to pay back $153,000 in taxpayer money it received years ago to build a dam that never materialized. Franklin Count...

“It was the best of energy policies; it was the worst of energy policies.” — Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities" (Apocryphal) Higher electricity p...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — After a decade of Trumpism, it should come as no surprise that President Donald Trump’s ethos (presenting scandal as strength, out...

BOSTON (TNS) — Democrats should come up with better cultural icons than aging, washed up multi-millionaire former talk show hosts. Liberal hero Stephe...

The Trump administration has made strides in chopping away at the corpulent federal administrative state. Nevertheless, the Competitive Enterprise Ins...

DALLAS (TNS) — For most moms I know, summer is a mixed bag. It’s not hard to understand why. For mothers without access to flexible or remote work, su...

ALBANY — Anyone hoping the governor would make even modest, common-sense changes to New York’s disastrous energy policies will be disappointed. The en...

I AM a patriot. I truly am. I say the Pledge of Allegiance at every event, I can sing all the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner," I can even recite t...

NEW YORK (TNS) — President Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party is slipping. Sort of. Because even though the president’s support among GOP vot...

Last week, Philadelphia voters passed a city-sponsored retirement plan for workers without a 401k or other employer-sponsored savings plan. Workers ca...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Congress has a decision to make. Hang American small business owners out to dry, or lock in a tax system that allows America’s entr...

If the federal government wants to keep Medicare and Social Security intact for the next 75 years, it will need an extra $78.2 trillion in cash that i...