Comment & Opinion

Enough is enough. With two people now dead in Minneapolis, it’s time for everyone involved to do what’s necessary to defuse the tension and to avoid f...

While the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection is passed, Americans must sdtill confront a difficult truth: the violence and division that erupted t...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Several Pennsylvania Democrats expressed support for Gov. Josh Shapiro Sunday and Monday as his upcoming book and rising national p...

Did it actually work? It is what we hope most policymakers ask themselves after a piece of legislation is passed. In the case of work requirements for...

The illiberal and liberal traditions have coexisted since the inception of the American nation. Illiberalism is when power is personal, direct, and ri...

Most of the recent vitriolic opposition to ICE is a feint by unrepentant open-borders progressives. They won the first round when Joe Biden was electe...

Pennsylvania’s educators have long known that easy student access to smartphones, watches, and tablets is a problem in our public schools. But when it...

President Donald Trump prudently backed off from his Greenland invasion threat this week, perhaps signaling that he’s ready to again turn his attentio...

After the last key member of the Grateful Dead, guitarist Bob Weir, died last week at the age of 78, the cascade of loving tributes published far and ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Donald Trump’s renewed interest in Greenland has triggered the predictable chorus of elite disbelief. Pundits scoff. Euro...

An aging parent’s medical appointment, a parent-teacher conference, a minor household emergency — these are everyday events that can throw things off ...

A record 45% of American adults now identify as political independents, according to new Gallup polling — up from 33% in 1990. That’s a big change. As...

Electricity doesn’t come from the outlets in our walls. In simplified terms, electricity arrives at our homes from power-generation stations, created ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — I have a confession, shameful as it may be for someone who has spent decades studying retirement policy and advising individuals and ...

“Three strikes and you’re out” is an excellent rule for baseball, but apparently not for Medicaid. The Maine health-care company Gateway Community Ser...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — In my parents' basement there's a yellowed page of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette with a feature photo of me on my father's shoulders ...

One of the most unsettling things is to find that your home has been invaded by pests. Pests can be rodents, big or small, somehow finding a way into ...

It is now beyond dispute that force, coercion and intimidation are the tools the Trump administration is using to enforce compliance with its domestic...

Gov. Josh Shapiro has built a national brand on three letters: GSD — "Get Stuff Done." Yet, three years into his term, Shapiro has failed to deliver f...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (TNS) — When Ronald Reagan looked at America, he saw a country rooted in liberty, anchored in the rule of law and sustained by a faith...