Commentary

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Not to beat a dead, ah, horse, but how can we ignore the spectacle that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has made of herself during h...

Among the many ways New York is still paying for the erratic-but-forceful leadership of ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the soaring expense and growing unreliab...

{child_byline}By DAVID POTTER{/child_byline} Last summer, our Board of Directors began some serious discussion around fundraising and community impact...

CHICAGO (TNS) — It’s complicated. Student protests are taking over college campuses across the nation. The turmoil over the Israel-Hamas war has inspi...

Virtually all the plastic packaging that enters your life is designed to be used once, then discarded, a major reason why we have a waste-management c...

Education comes in many forms. Parents, siblings, friends, school settings, coaching, etc. Learning comes by structure in the “classroom” setting or o...

NEW YORK (TNS) — If privileged college kids want to root for terrorists, that’s their right, as wrong-headed as it is. But they shouldn’t keep other k...

There will be a vote to remove Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson this week and it will fail thanks to Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries o...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Donald Trump has put America on notice: If he loses the presidential election, he reserves the right to encourage his followers to ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — How much is current college superstar and future WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark worth? The WNBA says she’s worth (in the arrangement ...

The Jimmy Carter years were marked by high interest rates, rampant unemployment, soaring inflation and weak economic growth. President Joe Biden is no...

In case you missed it — and you probably did, because the mainstream media is determined not to cover him or his campaign — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just...

ALBANY — The signers of our Bill of Rights knew that a free press was essential to the health of our democracy. That’s why the First Amendment to the ...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — As someone who remembers when Columbia University students took over Hamilton Hall 56 years ago, let me say that 2024 is not 1968...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The latest inflation numbers show a 3.5% annual growth for consumer prices, still well above pre-pandemic levels. That means millio...

As big as it is, the state’s new budget fails to address a host of crises — and the lack of urgency is troubling. Remember the opioid crisis? It never...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — For two weeks, former President Donald Trump has been cooped up in a Manhattan courtroom on charges that he falsified records to co...

I suppose if I wasn’t so predisposed to being a “news junkie,” I might be able to spare myself some angst and grief over what’s happening in the world...