Commentary

Should we say please and thank you to Siri and Alexa? Sure, it sounds a little nutty to extend courtesy to machines. We don’t say job well done to our...

It’s July, and many Americans are flocking to the lake, driving south to go to the beach or simply sticking around to enjoy the fleeting hot weather a...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — "I'm going to give you everything you want," President Trump told disaster-stricken residents and local officials. "I'm going to gi...

The General Services Administration plans to help federal agencies and local governments make $47 billion of purchases in 2026 using a data system tha...

In a time of terrible natural disasters like the one Texas has just experienced, we rely on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate aid ...

I had the privilege of sharing in a special celebration recently. Absolut Care of Allegany was honoring my niece, Amelia Tallman, for 25 years of fait...

Legal recreational marijuana states (New York) — and those states that are considering legalization (Pennsylvania) — would do well to take note. It’s ...

The federal budget bill signed by President Donald Trump will cost New York billions per year in healthcare funds and is expected to reduce enrollment...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. CASA, Inc., but only on the issue of wh...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Zohran Mamdani isn’t the most famous Democrat in America. But the frontrunner to serve as New York’s next mayor is well on his way — ...

A weekly allowance or a lemonade stand are great ways to teach young kids how to manage their money. A loan from the Small Business Administration is ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The political realignment has come for economics. At least since the days of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes in the last cent...

As Americans gather to celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, cookouts and parades, we do so at a moment of growing strain in the very government ...

As a military aviator and veteran of more contingencies than I care to remember, I watched with bated breath and prayers in my heart on the evening of...

High school is the time we begin to figure out who we really are — when we first gravitate to the interests that will take us toward adulthood. If we ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s not always obvious which of the multitude of species of bacteria riding around in us should be classified as germs and attacked,...

Every Philosophy 101 student knows the dilemma. If given the chance to kill Adolf Hitler years before his tyrannical ambitions unleashed death and des...

State and local governments spent an estimated $770 million in 2023 to incarcerate immigrants who had been in the country for less than three years, a...