Local Columnists

WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s a new year but the same old mess in Congress. Instead of a fresh start, lawmakers return next week to their stale, dead-end ar...

We are about to embark on what might be one of the wildest years in the history of American politics, and it may end up merely as a prelude. If 2024 i...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — In the spirit of the season, how about a glass-half-full view of our parlous politics in 2023? Whatever else it was, 2023 was a yea...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — My New Year’s resolution 12 months ago was to write fewer columns about Donald Trump. That well-intended goal met the same end as m...

NEW YORK (TNS) — 2023 had barely begun when scientists got some jolting news. On Jan. 4, a paper appeared in Nature claiming that disruptive scientifi...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Almost everything I hope for when it comes to foreign policy in 2024 seems outlandishly Pollyanna-ish. But a person has the right...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Last year at this time, 85% of economists in one poll predicted a recession this year — and that was an optimistic take compared to t...

The public-health officials are getting around to admitting the fallibility of public-health officials. The former head of the National Institutes of ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — The year 2024 is almost upon us, which means another election year, another chance for American voters to participate in our...

There are basically two camps of holiday people — the early decorators and those who wait at least until after Thanksgiving. It’s just as true for pos...

“I want to be a dictator for one day,” proudly declared former President Donald Trump to the New York Young Republican Club on December 9, 2023. Two h...

NEW YORK (TNS) — What are Democrats so afraid of? The way they’re acting, you would think that Joe Biden hadn’t beaten Donald Trump for the presidency...

NEW YORK (TNS) — A federal jury’s $148 million judgment in a Georgia defamation case was only nominally about a hapless has-been named Rudolph Giulian...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — It would take a hard-hearted person — especially one who is pro-life — to look at the plight of Kate Cox with no sympathy wh...

ALBANY (TNS) — On the seventh day, Chick-fil-A and its employees rest. But the Thruway keeps going. That discrepancy is leading several state lawmaker...

Like all the Republican candidates for president, Nikki Haley is trying to find the secret formula for running against Donald Trump. The most recent F...

NEW YORK (TNS) — A Western New York lawmaker wants to launch a pilot program that would allow 10,000 people to receive psychedelic psilocybin therapy ...

In 2014, New York state voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum on the ballot to amend the State Constitution and put the once-every-decade legisl...