Opinion

At its most fundamental level, a halt to benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program involves basic political questions. With the fed...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Low-income Americans have higher rates of obesity than rich Americans. That alone is reason to rethink food stamps. More than 41 mil...

Each November, we “fall back” by setting our clocks one hour earlier as Daylight Saving Time ends. While gaining an extra hour of sleep may sound like...

ALBANY — What was the point of arresting Ali Faqirzada? If you've followed the case, you know there really wasn't one. Faqirzada, 31, an Afghan refuge...

To most of us who aren’t federal employees, the government shutdown has, so far, been a distant partisan spat with limited direct impact on real life....

Democrats have been outspoken in their concern that President Donald Trump might flout a court order. Yet they shrug when federal bureaucrats ignore S...

Everyone saw this coming except the NBA. It seemed obvious to us: An industry built on winning money instead of earning it will attract those willing ...

Each November, we pause to recognize National Hospice and Palliative Care Month — a time to reflect on the comfort, dignity, and compassion that hospi...

I recently came across a writing by the late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that has aligned with some things I’ve been considering lately. He wrote...

Mark your calendar and plan to vote on Tuesday or vote early (through Nov. 2). Although it’s not as exciting as a presidential election year, some mig...

There are many essential components to the democratic process, but the most important is the one we do each November: vote in our general elections. I...

Air traffic controllers across the country are working without pay during the government shutdown as flight delays cause huge issues for travelers. Ho...

Twenty years after President Harry S. Truman proposed a national health insurance to cover all Americans, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed, in 1965,...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — For more than two decades, the U.S.-China trading relationship has been at the center of globalization’s story: low-cost goods for...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — If there's one takeaway from Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir, it's that the unrepentant child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, J...

What were the odds when the sports industry married the gaming industry that the union would eventually produce a scandal? And now it has arrived. The...

DETROIT (TNS) — Chats from young Republicans revealed recently by Politico expose a dark streak of the conservative movement that should bother anyone...

NEW YORK (TNS) — What is the welfare state America wants, and what is the one it can afford? This is not a question Americans are ready to discuss — s...