Commentary

WASHINGTON (TNS) — “The fastest way to end the Humanitarian Crises in Gaza is for Hamas to SURRENDER AND RELEASE THE HOSTAGES!!!” President Donald Tru...

New York’s Medicaid program remained a spending outlier in 2024, with per-resident outlays that were 24% higher than those of any other state and 77% ...

ALBANY (TNS) — I would rather not be writing about redistricting and gerrymandering. Tooth decay, rodent migratory patterns and the Dallas Cowboys are...

President Donald Trump’s tariff negotiations have been largely successful. Not so for his efforts to end the Ukraine war. Trump has expressed increasi...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TNS) — The left-leaning press is ringing the alarm bells: “Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Is Supercharging a New War on Democracy,” says ...

It is anticipated that President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) will raise clean energy project costs by 10% to 20%, increase the r...

The rebirth and spectacular rise of New York State’s wine and grape industry over the past generation — joined by, especially over the past decade, th...

I’m a guy who likes to travel the world. Unfortunately, I can do so only if I sit in front of the TV and watch celebrities like Stanley Tucci eat and ...

July 19 took a different turn from the annual gathering, the Back to Olean Barbecue, at the beautiful War Veterans Park. After the passing of Charles ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — On hearing of the Continental Army’s pivotal victory at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777, John Sinclair told Adam Smith, “The British n...

America will turn 250 years old next year, and taxpayers will fund one of the most expensive birthday gifts in history. President Trump’s “One Big Bea...

It’s the nightmare scenario few in Washington want to talk about — and even fewer are prepared to confront — and that is the use of illicit fentanyl a...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — There were three television characters who really mattered to me as a kid: Michael, Leroy and Theo. In elementary school, "Good Ti...

The Trump administration promised that the $9 billion rescission package Congress passed this month on spending for foreign aid and government broadca...

An estimated 37% of Medicare patients received a “low-value” health care service in 2023, costing the federal government $5.9 billion. The numbers com...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — On a Parisian street corner in the 1780s, you'd be approached by a pamphleteer stoking the political rage that would culminate in t...

NEW YORK (TNS) — I grew up watching the tennis greats of yesteryear with my dad, but have only returned to the sport recently thanks to another family...

In the wake of the U.S. airstrikes against Iran last month, President Donald Trump called the operation a “spectacular military success” that “complet...