Commentary

ALBANY — New York’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul received a failing grade on fiscal restraint from a libertarian think-tank, which criticized her for ...

BALTIMORE (TNS) — Kamala Harris’ historic campaign , which launched with joy and once seemed destined for an inevitable victory , is now dogged by dou...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — It was a simple social media post, critical of one of Donald Trump’s supporters, who justified his support with a bizarre misreadin...

The White House raised the spirits of Hamas terrorists this week by publicly rebuking Israel. It’s the same tired tune from the Harris-Biden administr...

I was born in 1951 and lived the first 18 years of my life in a small housing development near Albany. I attended the local Catholic school from kinde...

While the circumstances were depressing, we were anxious to help — a few hundred American Red Cross volunteers descending on Baton Rouge/New Orleans, ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Researchers who study misinformation are confronting a new problem: public scorn. And it’s not just in the form of online trolling. T...

Have you been watching the news reports from down South? Some individuals have faced the cameras and you can see the devastation on their faces, hear ...

The Biden-Harris administration wants the public to believe the country is in great shape economically. Yet the budget deficit tells a story of unsust...

I am voting for Donald Trump because I care about my fellow man, and despite the narrative that the MAGA movement is hate and bigotry, I know better. ...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — If you needed just one fact to show that in the world’s greatest democracy one of the two major parties is perversely devoted to s...

Just three weeks before the election, existential dread is descending on Democrats. As the average of both national and battleground state polls conti...

Last week, 14 state attorneys general , including New York AG Tish James , sued the social media platform TikTok for allegedly damaging young users’ m...

Things to think about before voting in 2024: Am I giving up on America as we know it? Done with rule of law? Done with choosing my own leaders? Done w...

Honoring someone is a tall order. It means finding an eloquent way to summarize and put to words the life and good works of someone deserving of being...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — For a long time, Donald Trump derided electric vehicles as expensive and impractical. “Nobody wants them,” he charged, even though ...

CHICAGO (TNS) — Political centrism has a bad name. In fact, it has a lot of bad names. Centrists have been denigrated as squishy, weak in the knees, g...

This is a very crucial election, with two candidates as opposites. Kamala Harris has demonstrated a long-standing career of integrity, honesty and com...