Commentary

The Social Security program is projected to face a funding shortfall in just over a decade. To be clear, this is not as big a nightmare as is often de...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — House Republicans plan to flee the Capitol this week for the holidays after almost 12 months in power. And flee they should: If the...

ALBANY (TNS) — U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik posed a simple question to the presidents of three prominent schools of higher education: Would calling for th...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Was it just a little joke when Orange Jesus declared to Sean Hannity that, in the event of his political resurrection, he would be...

The latest report on how poorly U.S. students are performing in math also includes an easy way to potentially improve classroom performance. The Natio...

I am on a mission. Well, who isn’t at Christmas time with all the planning and lists of things to do longer than the cash register tapes? I’ve planned...

Two things are true: One, former President Donald Trump’s polling — nationally, in key swing states, and in the first-voting state of Iowa — has never...

There I was, standing in my daughter’s living room holding on to the top of her live Christmas tree praying that it would stand up straight once she g...

Do you remember the big national debate on whether the United States would adopt a policy to make the foreign share of the population the highest it’s...

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted down a resolution from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to withdraw 900 American soldiers from Syria unless Co...

OLEAN — United Way is making a significant impact in our community, addressing key issues in health, education and economic mobility. By focusing on i...

CHICAGO — Greg Abbott isn’t someone all upon with fondness. And for good reason. Leave aside the nasty politics for a moment, though, and in a key res...

NEW YORK (TNS) — If there’s one climate-change solution everybody seems to agree on, it’s that trees are good. Even Donald Trump, who has called clima...

Rep. Elise Stefanik set a clever trap at a House hearing on antisemitism on campus, snaring the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard ...

WASHINGTON — George Santos, assuming that’s his real name, is a classic type, and in another era he’d be selling miracle elixirs out of a horse-drawn ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Our National Defense Strategy identifies China as the primary challenge to the United States. To confront this threat successfully,...

CHICAGO (TNS) — One of the best ways to get a picture of a nation is through its numbers and, perhaps more importantly, its averages. But Americans li...

It’s possible that Congress can’t find a way, despite the support of bipartisan majorities, to continue funding Ukraine in its fight against Vladimir ...