Commentary

Education leaders spent the pandemic telling students that showing up to school wasn’t necessary. Unfortunately, many of them took the lesson to heart...

Legislators in New York have passed 24 election-related bills out of at least one chamber of the Legislature, more than all other state legislatures c...

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget blueprint for 2025 tempers her policy ambitions with some welcome fiscal restraint — or what passes for it in big-spending ...

John Fetterman, as someone put it, is doing a Bulworth in reverse. Bulworth was a fictional California senator in the 1990s movie of the same name who...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The gulf between how Israel and much of the world thinks about events in Gaza is growing, and with it the risk of regional escalation...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Does anyone believe that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley truly stands a chance of becoming the...

There is no one reason why New York is hemorrhaging population. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have been partly right when he joked people are moving to...

Not surprisingly, state Sen. George Borrello takes an extremely partisan position regarding Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recently enacted Birds & Bees Protecti...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — If Israel is being charged with genocide at the International Court of Justice, why isn’t Russia? This is a question I find very ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — We’re in a new year, but the headlines from Capitol Hill feel old. Once again, Congress has been debating its annual spending bills...

Gov. Hochul just rolled out a characteristically careful budget that points toward fiscal sanity. Let’s hope she sticks to her guns against the coming...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Anyone watching the Iowa caucuses results pour in Monday night could see very quickly that former President Donald Trump was going to...

Jack Smith is a threat to American democracy. He is blatantly seeking, as a prosecutor, to influence the outcome of the 2024 election. This is not his...

The Federal Highway Administration is not amused. The agency just released an 1,100-page manual on traffic control devices that includes the admonitio...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Even though it was the first time Republicans had voted in this presidential contest, there was a last-stand mentality here in Iowa...

For decades now, Congress has refused to do its job when it comes to curtailing the power of the president to wage war. President Joe Biden’s bombings...

NEW YORK (TNS) — What does it mean that scientists found 240,000 million nanoparticles of plastic in a typical bottle of water? The number is big and ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul opened her State of the State message to the Legislature last week with a surprising proclamation: “The State of New York is stronge...