Commentary

I think I have found evidence I was always something of a news junkie. It points to times long before I officially became a journalist and began worki...

Accountability is crucial to public service. Secret Service Director Kimberly A. Cheatle was right to resign Tuesday after her disastrous, bipartisan ...

It’s official. I have reached the age of mysterious injuries. I’ve slept wrong, stepped wrong and reached my arm wrong. I’ve found scratches, cuts, bu...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It’s been a month like few others in American political history. And now we’ve seen something that most of us have never seen in our ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — American politics these days almost makes you want to hide out in your basement, avoiding, for instance, a televised debate in whic...

The two words that Donald Trump did not say in Milwaukee when accepting the Republican presidential nomination? Kamala Harris. Republicans are now dev...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Joe Biden never hid his ambition to be president, or the chip he carried on his shoulder from feeling underestimated for most of hi...

Congress amended federal law this year to give increased oversight to the Architect of the Capitol agency following allegations against its former dir...

MILWAUKEE (TNS) — Since a would-be assassin tried to kill former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally Saturday, his team has been telling th...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — On July 13 my 7-year-old daughter and I were at our first Pittsburgh Riverhounds game when, around 6:20 p.m., my phone buzzed. It w...

President Joe Biden left Las Vegas on Wednesday after testing positive for COVID. Before flying back to Washington, he spent his time ramping up his e...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — If you don’t think the interest on the federal debt is a problem, try this quick exercise. Grab your pay stub for June and see how ...

Violence, or at least the threat of it, has been a part of American political life from the beginning of the nation. Our third vice president, after a...

I was shocked when I heard on the way back from a water park, of all places, that a gunman had fired at Donald Trump. I was amazed and shocked again w...

The Alle-Catt Wind project has come a long way since starting development more than eight years ago. We’ve recently started construction on our Operat...

The Congressional Budget Office projects that the federal government will have a budget deficit of $1.9 trillion this year, $400 billion more than was...

Paying for healthcare in America is a complicated business. In recent years, the government has taken valuable steps to reduce the harm that unexpecte...

Thomas Matthew Crooks should never have been able to get on a roof fewer than 150 yards from former president Donald Trump, let along take several sho...