Commentary

Gov. Kathy Hochul is absolutely right that it was her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, who signed into law the disastrous “reforms,” like cashless bail, tha...

President Biden wants to persuade Americans that the economy is better than they think — and that he deserves credit for turning it around. He’s calli...

Even though all the briefs have been submitted and the oral arguments were held on June 8 before an Albany appellate panel in a crazy redistricting ca...

The Portland Sea Dogs won, but that’s not why, fundamentally, the fans went home happy. The Double-A minor league affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, the...

Thursday, June 29, 2023, was a very good day for the Supreme Court and the U.S. Constitution. On that day the high court struck down “affirmative acti...

The federal government has the power to forgive federal student loan debt. What was at issue in the two cases the United States Supreme Court recently...

The Supreme Court just acted to get rid of decades-long practices at colleges and universities that have been an illegal, unconstitutional, unprincipl...

CHICAGO (TNS) — It has been nearly 40 years since Congress was able to find common ground on the future of Social Security. While millions of people d...

We hear about food insecurity in highly segregated cities like Buffalo but food insecurity is more prevalent in rural areas like Cattaraugus County. Y...

President Joe Biden is already scheming to get around last week’s Supreme Court ruling that invalidated his effort to unilaterally make billions in st...

Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream wants the United States to return the Blacks Hills to the Lakota. Which raises the question: Once this transfer takes place, w...

The U.S. Supreme Court is on hiatus until the first Monday of October. The docket this fall will offer the justices plenty of chances to again reinvig...

Anyone following the economic news coming from the Biden administration lately probably feels like Dorothy meeting the Wizard of Oz. Whether it’s data...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Even a broken clock is right twice a day, as the saying goes. The same lopsidedly right-wing Supreme Court that since June 2022 has...

One of the problems with the Legislature only being in Albany for half the year is that they leave a lot of common-sense public safety measures on the...

The last year has shown the power of a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Conservatives had a 5-4 majority for years and were not able to...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — For decades, U.S. employers and university admissions officers have wandered in a legal minefield, never fully certain whether rac...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — A little more than a week ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hold on power appeared to be disintegrating. Rebel mercenaries we...