Commentary

To most of us who aren’t federal employees, the government shutdown has, so far, been a distant partisan spat with limited direct impact on real life....

Democrats have been outspoken in their concern that President Donald Trump might flout a court order. Yet they shrug when federal bureaucrats ignore S...

I recently came across a writing by the late great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that has aligned with some things I’ve been considering lately. He wrote...

Mark your calendar and plan to vote on Tuesday or vote early (through Nov. 2). Although it’s not as exciting as a presidential election year, some mig...

There are many essential components to the democratic process, but the most important is the one we do each November: vote in our general elections. I...

Air traffic controllers across the country are working without pay during the government shutdown as flight delays cause huge issues for travelers. Ho...

Twenty years after President Harry S. Truman proposed a national health insurance to cover all Americans, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed, in 1965,...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — For more than two decades, the U.S.-China trading relationship has been at the center of globalization’s story: low-cost goods for...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — If there's one takeaway from Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir, it's that the unrepentant child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, J...

DETROIT (TNS) — Chats from young Republicans revealed recently by Politico expose a dark streak of the conservative movement that should bother anyone...

NEW YORK (TNS) — What is the welfare state America wants, and what is the one it can afford? This is not a question Americans are ready to discuss — s...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (TNS) — The government shutdown rests squarely on the shoulders of Democrats. After getting shellacked at the polls in 2024, they’ve ...

Protect the Adirondacks supports Proposal 1 to amend   Article 14, Section 1,  the “forever wild” clause of the New York State Constitution, to author...

“Youth Have Seen Enough Tobacco” was the slogan for Seen Enough Tobacco Day, an annual day of action Oct. 13 in New York and led by youth members of R...

The government shutdown is partly a fight over tax cuts everyday Americans receive. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), which remains a cornerstone of affo...

ALBANY — A recent analysis by National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) lamented the declining state of U.S. education by highlighting how sc...

Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, is one of the last of his kind in Congress. Elected in 2012 amid the Tea Party movement, Massie has been a ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The U.S. Labor Department is sounding a stark warning that the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has devastated the ranks ...