Opinion

WASHINGTON (TNS) — My prediction that President Joe Biden would drop out was a rare bright spot among last year’s not totally serious predictions. Und...

Christopher D. Stanley

Revisiting a well-established fictional world can be an exciting time for the original works’ fans — the return of “Star Wars” with the prequel and se...

This year,Christmas Dayand the first day ofHanukkahcoincided. At first glance, these celebrations have little in common, but a closer look reveals a p...

WASHINGTON(TNS) — PresidentJoe Bidenannounced Monday that he was commuting the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death-row inmates to life in prison w...

NEW YORK (TNS) — President-elect Donald Trump’s latest promise is to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which would mean putting the U.S. on Standard Tim...

BOSTON (TNS) — Defeated Democrats have once again embarked on a pointless, post-election pursuit of their political Holy Grail — finding the votes to ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — U.S. educators better hope Santa doesn’t check test results. New results from an international comparison of K-12 students showed t...

I may be in my seventh decade of life, but I still love the old Christmas specials, the ones that came out in the 1960s. “A Charlie Brown Christmas”? ...

As money from opioid settlements began being distributed across the U.S. this May, the Associated Press warned that “local governments may not have th...

During a family gathering a few years ago, my son-in-law’s eyes spotted an old Christmas card attached to the side of my cluttered refrigerator. How h...

President-elect Donald Trump ran his presidential campaign on the promise of deporting tens of millions of illegal immigrants. While Trump and his aid...

NEW YORK (TNS) — New York is a beacon for equality and justice for all; however, when a loved one dies due to another’s negligence, New York serves no...

ALBANY — Public employee unions complained loudly when New York’s state government workforce shrank during the coronavirus pandemic, using that decrea...

How long must a dying franchise suffer before a movie studio decides to put it out of its misery? There’s an old quote attributed to Albert Einstein t...

NEW YORK (TNS) — DefeatedDemocratsare looking for new ways forward, and one of their most articulate leaders is Sen.Chris MurphyofConnecticut. They sh...

In the next few days, town and county tax bills will be arriving in the mail to property owners in New York state. Payments accepted in the month of J...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is not in the habit of window shopping. At seemingly every opportunity, the agency prefers to blow as much mon...