Commentary

ALBANY (TNS) — The pollster over at Siena College in Loudonville released a doozy several days ago. It might keep you up at night. The national survey...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — My colleague Nicole Russell recently wrote that Republicans turned hard-core MAGA Trump voters are to blame for the persiste...

ALBANY (TNS) — Public trust in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fell sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic, with many Americans telling p...

Mike Pence, after about seven years of campaigning with Donald Trump, serving with Trump, and showing as much deference as could possibly be expected ...

As inflation cooled over the past year, President Joe Biden ran atop the podium to claim his medal. Turns out the race wasn’t over. On Wednesday, the ...

I should know better than to go to a yard sale. I always see something I think I need — or want. At least in that moment. I probably get it from my la...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running a long-shot campaign against incumbent Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination. He’s polling at abo...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Trust is always harder to build than to destroy, and that’s true for financial markets, too. The U.S. has borrowed tens of trillion...

New York’s struggling legal cannabis market has hit another wall in the form of a judge’s order that it must stop issuing new licenses and providing o...

It is sometimes said that the prosecutions of former President Donald Trump are “backfiring” on Democrats. That is, instead of lowering Trump’s politi...

Decades of excessive spending, paid with debt, are hitting America’s credit rating. On Aug. 1 Fitch Ratings downgraded the United States federal gover...

A bill to limit surcharges on speeding tickets is more than about saving taxpayers money. It’s about issuing a reminder and sending a message about th...

Hillary Clinton can’t say she didn’t warn us. In a new 3,500-word essay on “The Weaponization of Loneliness” in The Atlantic, the former secretary of ...

Congressional Democrats returned home last week to tout new federal legislation intended to stop a surge in retail theft. It’s an interesting concept,...

ALBANY (TNS) — Kathy Hochul’s administration was not especially fond of my recent column. Not that I was surprised. After all, I criticized the state’...

It’s called artificial intelligence because it was created not by nature but by humans, this gift of ours to robots, computers and other specially des...

The police have wide leeway when they’re in pursuit of a dangerous criminal. But can they destroy homes, businesses and other property with impunity d...

In a federal courthouse that rioters marched past on their way to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, former President Donald Trump pled not guilt...