Commentary

BOSTON (TNS) — The campaign against affirmative action has reduced the complicated process of college admissions to a simple and highly inaccurate sou...

In honor of the nation’s 247th birthday, here are some quotations about patriotism and citizenship to consider over the holiday with our wishes for a ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — When scientists announced at a conference last week that they had created synthetic human embryos, it felt like something from Brave ...

The Supreme Court has spoken, invalidating racial preferences in college admissions as was widely anticipated. The six-justice conservative majority d...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Jesse Watters didn’t eat the pizza Tuesday night. Was Watters, the 44-year-old lightweight named a day earlier to replace Tucker Ca...

The Biden administration has a proclivity for choosing people with abysmal track records for top political appointments. Consider Jared Bernstein. A c...

Last November, incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul nearly lost what should have been a breeze of an election. She was an incumbent in a state with more than t...

Come on! Come on! There has to be something good on!” I told myself recently as I clicked my way across several streaming channels. I somehow ended up...

Four months after President Joe Biden nominated former California Labor Secretary Julie Su to serve as U.S. Labor Secretary, Su’s nomination remains s...

It’s been nearly three weeks since former President Donald Trump announced that he had been indicted in the classified documents investigation. On Jun...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Advocates for reproductive rights have long warned that abortion bans would endanger women’s lives by deterring doctors from providin...

The national test considered the gold standard of whether schoolchildren are gaining or slipping has delivered alarming news: Kids are backsliding in ...

On the one hand, events in Russia this past weekend were stunning — the leader of a mercenary group declaring against the country’s military leadershi...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Each Sunday, about 70 people — all first-and-second generation Chinese Americans — gather in a small Dallas-Fort Worth-area church...

During the failed August 1991 putsch in Russia, the good guys were reformers Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. The bad guys were an incompetent cla...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — When Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken went to Beijing last week to try to repair the frayed relationship between the United Sta...

Numbers help tell every story. For example, many studies have helped make the case that children who read during the summer months make greater academ...

First of all, apologies to all of you die-hard Fenians who are expecting this article to wax poetic about the green hills of Ireland or the nobility o...