Commentary

I’ve been educating about and advocating for universal health care these past 45 years. While at times sidelined or discouraged, I have never dropped ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (TNS) — Like many people over 60 and thinking seriously about retirement, I’ve been paying closer attention to Social Security, and rec...

The Small Business Administration won’t try to recover most of the potentially improper grants it gave to restaurants during the Covid-19 pandemic, ac...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Last year’s not totally serious predictions were as forgettable as President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address. Undaunted, we...

ALBANY (TNS) — At the start of the year, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik was set to end her time in Congress to become the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nati...

New York politics enters uncharted territory in 2026 as Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani takes over the reins of the nation's most populous city fo...

A Massachusetts man who had already been evicted from 12 apartments for refusing to pay rent received $23,000 in taxpayer-funded rental assistance in ...

CHICAGO (TNS) — With only hours left in 2025, Americans should treasure their time with family and friends during the too-busy and too-short holiday s...

ALBANY (TNS) — In a recent Siena Research Institute poll, 80% of Upstate New Yorkers said they didn't know Bruce Blakeman enough to have an opinion ab...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon — a change that’s based as much on science as ethics. Pressure is comin...

If President Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade wars are so great for the American economy, then why does he have to shell out, as he did this month, $1...

GOUVERNEUR — Graphite mines in the United States largely closed down seven decades ago. Mining the ubiquitous mineral found in everything from nuclear...

The world is watching as Australia experiments with a first-of-its-kind social media ban. The measure took effect earlier this month and is designed t...

Medicaid is a federal program jointly funded with the states, providing health and long-term care insurance to more than 80 million low-income America...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There are a lot of reasons, some deserved and some not, for Americans’ distrust of their institutions. Lately I have been thinking ab...

The General Services Administration had its third-most expensive month ever for outside purchases this September, with $4.5 billion spent on items lik...

Remember, if you can, back to those early days of Gov. Kathy Hochul's tenure, when after 10 years under the prior fellow, there seemed to be genuine c...