Comment & Opinion

Fewer than three months after last year's Pennsylvania state budget negotiations ended, this year's budget process began Tuesday with Gov. Josh Shapir...

Midterms are rarely kind to the president’s party, and with balloting just nine months off, the storm clouds look particularly threatening for Republi...

The federal government gives billions of dollars in research grants to universities every year, but not all of it directly funds scientific inquiry. M...

Technology and tactics have changed dramatically since Abraham Lincoln was training Whig Party leaders, though his strategy for winning elections stil...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Last Friday's release of a few million more Epstein-related documents came with gruesome and disgusting revelations about the sexua...

Many parts of the country have experienced a decrease in crime, especially violent crime, according to FBI crime statistics. This is great news for co...

It’s much easier to romanticize Hamas when you ignore their brutality. That wasn’t an option for Yair Horn. Mr. Horn was one of around 250 people kidn...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Some of my favorite childhood memories were the wintertime days when I'd wake up and see the flakes gently falling, and then rush t...

It doesn’t take artificial intelligence to deduce why so many power plants have shut down recently. Across the country, rising electricity prices are ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — “Fraud” doesn’t begin to cover it. Under Gov. Tim Walz’s watch, Minnesota has become the hub of an exorbitant federal fund money-la...

Health care access has put Pennsylvania into the national spotlight over the past few years — but for all the wrong reasons. Last fall, a national hea...

Retired Judge John Cleland’s recent letter to the editor claims President Trump is “criminally prosecuting and politically threatening” government off...

The State Department did not have consistent oversight requirements for $5.7 billion it contributed to the United Nations and other international orga...

It should come as little surprise that Bill and Hillary Clinton have defied subpoenas to testify in the U.S. House probe of Jeffrey Epstein. But the f...

In recent years, workforce development has figured as a major topic in Pennsylvania. Students who used to focus on going to college are looking at dif...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Sen. John Fetterman hates government shutdowns. The Pennsylvania Democrat has never backed a lapse in government funding since he...

NEW YORK (TNS) — There is a natural human tendency to assume that your generation has it harder than everyone else. Even by those standards, however, ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro clearly wants to be president. Like most political memoirs, his says as much what he thinks about the path ahead as an accurate rend...

Instead of using tariffs, I wish President Trump would have gone directly to the fundamental points of disagreement with the European community and NA...

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...