Commentary

As states like Mississippi proceed with social media age verification laws, technology is in the crosshairs. Social media’s adverse effects are no lon...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — Not long after members of the Public Service Commission congratulated themselves Thursday for paring back National Grid’s rate increa...

The Social Security Trust Fund is less than a decade away from insolvency thanks to congressional and presidential inertia. The 90-year-old retirement...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Texas officials didn’t have a problem sending thousands of migrants to New York, a sanctuary state, when the desperate asylum seekers...

A released report from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services offers a timely update on what has long been one of New York state’s most ...

Tax-advantaged employer-sponsored retirement savings accounts hit a milestone not long ago: At least half of all private sector U.S. workers now parti...

There are about 160,000 gas stations in the United States, the vast majority of them built and run through the private sector to maximize efficiency a...

For the last 10 years, it’s been difficult for Democrats to win elections unless the campaigns center on Donald Trump. But the arrival of Zohran Mamda...

Columbia University’s Middle East Institute received $4 million in federal grants to train future government employees, and spent part of it on payrol...

What passes for intellectual heft at The Atlantic magazine is any criticism of President Donald Trump. In The Atlantic’s pages and its digital fare, y...

NEW YORK (TNS) — New data shows a rise in colon cancer among adults ages 45-49. That’s wonderful news. Celebrating an increase in cancer rates might s...

ALBANY (TNS) — The Texas Democrats who fled Austin to block a vote on their state's plan to redraw congressional districts made unfortunate travel cho...

NEW YORK (TNS) — A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association makes a compelling case that a healthy lifestyle does an agi...

The Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operators grant program made $544 million of improper payments during the Covid-19 pandemic, but t...

We’re more than two-thirds of the way through meteorological summer, and so far when the weather hasn’t been suffocatingly hot and humid, in the Midwe...

Am I the only one who’s a little freaked out by the robots roving the aisles at BJs? My understanding is they are taking inventory. As they move throu...

MIAMI (TNS) — Of all the threats to American democracy these days, Sydney Sweeney’s blue jeans aren’t one of them. If you’ve logged on to Twitter, Tik...

In a just-released report, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) claims that renewable energy is the most cost-competitive source of new e...