Commentary

The field of American history is in crisis. Earlier this month, the Department of Education released troubling data indicating that only 13% of eighth...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The race for the Republican presidential nomination, once a two-man battle between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. R...

It’s funny how things work. I was in Michigan fishing along the Detroit River with a friend and a huge flotilla of other boats. The annual walleye sea...

Nearly two decades later, Jennifer Harrison still vividly remembers “the call.” She was wearing a white off-the-shoulder sweater, pink high heels and ...

I read with dismay an article about construction of wind turbines in Cattaraugus and Allegany counties, which described the expected decimation of the...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s top priority at the Zoar Valley Multiple Use and Unique Areas is public safety. Zoar Val...

With the State Legislature nearing the end of this year’s session, the liquor-store lobby is working feverishly to stifle a bill to let supermarkets a...

Developers looking to build thousands of wind turbines off the Mid-Atlantic and New England coast are coming up against a force even more relentless t...

For Americans under 20, an epidemic much deadlier than Covid-19 has raged over the last three years. Deaths among those aged 1 to 19 surged 20% — driv...

Politicians and activists reacted with dismay last week upon the news that the FBI illegally tapped into foreign intelligence data looking for dirt on...

Current and past cinematic pieces covering end of life issues, such as Plan 75, are making their way back into cultural and political conversations. R...

Recently, the NAACP issued what it calls a “formal travel advisory” to warn black Americans against visiting Florida. “Florida is openly hostile towar...

During a U.S. Postal Service-induced Sunday off from pagination (no, your postal carrier didn’t skip your house on Monday, they and many other federal...

An ongoing crisis at the border, a health care system in shambles, and endless wars — Democrats and Republicans both struggle with finding solutions t...

When the COVID pandemic hit, doctors and mental health experts foresaw the cataclysmic problems the disease would cause — not just the deaths, but the...

New York state ranks second from the bottom nationally for organ donations. Yet many compassionate citizens sign up with their driver’s license renewa...

When President Joe Biden announced last week that the United States would withdraw its last troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, he cast the decision ...

VERO BEACH, Fla. — The Dodgers are long gone, having abandoned their onetime spring-training home here a dozen years ago. The snowbirds are flocking n...