Commentary

In 1624, John Donne, an English poet and cleric, wrote a prose meditation with words that we know as the poem, "No Man Is an Island." The often-quoted...

The State Department did not have consistent oversight requirements for $5.7 billion it contributed to the United Nations and other international orga...

The company administering taxpayer-funded health insurance for New York state employees overpaid hospitals by $19.3 million, according to a new audit ...

Instead of using tariffs, I wish President Trump would have gone directly to the fundamental points of disagreement with the European community and NA...

The delusion that America was somehow “great” during and before the periods leading up to the Second World War is just that ... a delusion. Unable to ...

Enough is enough. With two people now dead in Minneapolis, it’s time for everyone involved to do what’s necessary to defuse the tension and to avoid f...

Most of the recent vitriolic opposition to ICE is a feint by unrepentant open-borders progressives. They won the first round when Joe Biden was electe...

The illiberal and liberal traditions have coexisted since the inception of the American nation. Illiberalism is when power is personal, direct, and ri...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul is hingeing a big chunk of her budget — and the state’s health care system — on a politically fraught gambit: asking the Tr...

President Donald Trump prudently backed off from his Greenland invasion threat this week, perhaps signaling that he’s ready to again turn his attentio...

After the last key member of the Grateful Dead, guitarist Bob Weir, died last week at the age of 78, the cascade of loving tributes published far and ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Donald Trump’s renewed interest in Greenland has triggered the predictable chorus of elite disbelief. Pundits scoff. Euro...

ALBANY (TNS) — We just witnessed our first notable flashpoint in the nascent race for governor, a back-and-forth over the killing of Renee Good by an ...

A record 45% of American adults now identify as political independents, according to new Gallup polling — up from 33% in 1990. That’s a big change. As...

NEW YORK (TNS) — I have a confession, shameful as it may be for someone who has spent decades studying retirement policy and advising individuals and ...

We’ve reached the point in America’s polarization story where not even churches are sacred spaces. Protesters angry about the fatal shooting of Renee ...

One of the most unsettling things is to find that your home has been invaded by pests. Pests can be rodents, big or small, somehow finding a way into ...

Rep. Nick Langworthy says no to extending ACA (Affordable Care Act) subsidies and Americans are beginning to feel the pain. Soaring health care costs ...