Opinion

A group of eight Democratic progressive U.S. House members known as “The Squad” have filed $224 million of earmarks in the federal budget since 2023 t...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Nostalgia seems harmless enough, and then someone starts earnestly — absurdly — glamorizing the Stone Age. “Damn can you imagine b...

Syracuse Police Officer Michael E. Jensen and Onondaga County Sheriff’s Lt. Michael Hoosock went to work on Sunday and did not come home. They died in...

The need today is real and Catholic Charities is, as it has been for the last century, here to meet the challenge. HOPE is central to the work we do e...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — What’s behind the wage gap between men and women? It has narrowed recently. In 2023, women’s median weekly wages of $1,005 equaled ...

I paid a pricey sum recently for another product on the market that was supposed to better my health and well-being. It was one of many that I see adv...

Uri Berliner, a journalist of a certain age, has been feeling some heartburn over what has been transpiring at his longtime employer, National Public ...

Over the past three years, the Biden White House has gradually passed through the five stages of grief when it comes to inflation. President Joe Biden...

CHICAGO (TNS) — In an election year where the air crackles with political tension, the arrival of Alex Garland’s film “Civil War” has sparked a broad ...

NEW YORK — In Salman Rushdie’s first book since the 2022 stabbing that hospitalized him and left him blind in one eye, the author wastes no time reliv...

In a now-retracted statement issued April 5, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressed that although he hadn’t examined all evidence, he had been told by “reaso...

The New York State Legislature continues to wage war on landlords, property owners and small businesses by insisting on including policies that erode ...

Democrats have a tendency to elevate short-term political gain above more comprehensive strategies — sometimes with results they later regret. Harry R...

ALBANY — Critics are slamming a New York ballot initiative they argue would allow children to get transgender surgery without their parent’s consent a...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Whatever happened to the empathetic Joe Biden who won the 2020 presidential election? Some days it feels as if that kindly Uncle Jo...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — How grotesque to watch long-term U.S. security interests hang on the outcome of a political battle between the Hamlet-like speake...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Despite inflation-adjusted incomes falling dramatically since January 2021, Americans are buying more than ever. That may sound lik...

Americans are inundated with social media messages and news stories emphasizing their “divisions” and decrying the country’s deep “polarization.” But ...