Commentary

The 2024 election is promising to be one for the ages, and an underplayed story so far is how the left wing of the Democratic Party has so easily fall...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has taken a leading role among Democrats in conceding the damage done to local communities by the Biden administration’...

On Sept. 1, New York state’s cigarette tax rose from $4.35 to $5.35 per pack of cigarettes. The state’s decision to increase cigarette taxes is a nece...

New York has some of the most ambitious green energy goals you’re going to see anywhere. The state wants to generate 70% of its electricity via renewa...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The labor market is nowhere near as strong as it appears. If that sounds surprising, it’s because the Biden administration is playi...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Voters in both major parties think President Joe Biden is too old to run for reelection. The poll numbers are piling up — and they’...

You don’t play games with New Yorkers’ health. But that’s what state health officials appear to be doing by omitting testing information about two com...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — I’m just back from a theater vacation in London and a week in Scotland, which were meant to help me recoup from a strenuous work ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Despite a robust economy, the U.S. budget deficit is poised to double over the next year — to an eye-watering $2 trillion. As bad as ...

CHICAGO (TNS) — For years, we have lamented the spike in college costs and accompanying student debt bloat while we teach high schoolers to covet admi...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Federal spending is hard enough to keep track of at the best of times, but the Biden administration is highly adept at hiding how t...

School is officially back in session for districts across the Twin Tiers. That’s not news to the scores of students, parents and school staff who’ve b...

The ultimate responsibility for the migrant situation — which in the past year has expanded 2,000 miles from the southern border of Texas into New Yor...

A new Wall Street Journal national poll over the Labor Day weekend has shaken some observers’ views of the 2024 Republican presidential campaign. The ...

Members of Congress returned to the U.S. Capitol this week after their August recess facing a familiar predicament of their own making: They are runni...

I want to publicly thank the wonderful staff at Enchanted Mountain Urgent Veterinary Care in Olean. Their service, availability, care and genuine conc...

When your windows are open in the summer, you hear things. Most likely, eavesdropping isn’t intentional, but you can’t help but pick up bits of conver...

An op-ed in The New York Times warns, as the headline puts it, that “America is an empire in decline,” and finds a precedent in imperial Rome. The pie...