Commentary

WASHINGTON (TNS) — As the fighting in Ukraine continues, some representatives in Congress, primarily Republicans, oppose additional financial and mili...

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...

Hochul vetoes bills that would drive employers from the state. In the rare good news department, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ended the year by vetoing ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — As the war in Ukraine nears its second anniversary, there are signs that both Russia and the West are beginning to look toward the ...

The governor gets the Legislature to minimize transparency of limited liability corporations as part of the year-end rush to sign or veto legislation....

We’ve started a new year, and 2024 should be quite an eventful time. For one, we will spend much of the year going through the process of selecting pr...

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...

For all President Biden’s desperate desire to avoid “escalation” in the Middle East, United States forces on Sunday sank three Houthi boats trying to ...

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...

In recent weeks, Congress has stripped a senator of his committee chairmanship pending a bribery investigation, expelled a House member for egregious ...

The latest Census data finds that on present course six progressive states would lose 12 House seats in 2030 reapportionment. The migrant border mess ...

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...

Israel faces increasing pressure from the usual suspects to stand down in its war with Hamas. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently noted, ...

All we want for Christmas is a functional state ethics enforcement body, instead of one trapped in legal limbo While editorial boards are definitely i...