Opinion

No sport on Earth is more popular than soccer — football, as the rest of the world calls it. And with the possible exception of the Olympic Games, no ...

This century’s worst-case climate scenario isn’t global warming of 4 or even 5 degrees Celsius. It’s a nuclear winter that would trigger global coolin...

Kevin McCarthy may now have the hardest job in Washington. Assuming that he becomes speaker of the House, which will require the near-unanimous suppor...

Polls show economic concerns were dominant for many Americans this election season. Unfortunately, voters couldn’t always count on getting accurate re...

Democrats will control the Senate and, it seems, Republicans, the House in the 118th Congress starting on Jan. 3, but the current 117th session still ...

ALBANY (TNS) — After last week’s flattened red wave, Republicans are at long last questioning their bond with Donald Trump. And for good reason: Candi...

The New York state comptroller reports that the state lost at least $11 billion in unemployment fraud in the first year of the pandemic? How did they ...

Remember when the conventional wisdom was that abortion would be a huge issue in the midterm elections? Then the election came, and a lot of data poin...

Last week, President Joe Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness plan has been ruled unconstitutional by U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman. While a fi...

In the last two weeks there have been letters to the editor regarding caps on insulin prices. The first letter correctly referenced a $35 per month ca...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — It is fitting that the unexpected U.S. midterm election results emerged just as Russia formally announced its military withdrawal...

Donald Trump is in his weakest political state since 2015 or early 2016. During his presidency, when he was at the center of countless intense controv...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Can Donald Trump supporters be honest with themselves? Trump might be the bull in the china shop they always wanted. He might spea...

Elections are rarely about only one issue, but there’s no question that economic worries motivated voters this year. Polls, both before the election a...

In scientific studies of conditioning, a popular approach is to have an animal receive mild electric shocks after behavior that the researchers are tr...

America is exceptional. For those who may not believe so or may have forgotten, it is the job of the rest of us to show them the way. In a focus group...

Given that the midterms failed to generate the unambiguous Republican triumph that many conservatives expected, it is natural that we ask the question...

ALBANY (TNS) — It is tempting to give Lee Zeldin credit for nearly pulling off the impossible. If someone two or three months ago had told us that a D...