Comment & Opinion

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The future of Pennsylvania's congressional maps will be at stake this fall when voters decide whether to retain three state Supre...

President Donald Trump now likes to play soldier, even though he received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War to avoid military service. Our ...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a multi-state effort that was supposed to be good for consumers and go...

Ask a high school student about the last book they read, and you may be disappointed to learn they never cracked open "The Catcher in the Rye" or trud...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The First Amendment is in a sorry state, especially on college campuses. A survey of students released last Tuesday from the Foundati...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The Spanish Civil War is distinctive, even among other civil wars, for its barbarism, and in particular the personal nature of the ...

The social media age has made it possible for any person, at any time, to broadcast and publish their thoughts to the entire world with the push of a ...

Suburban Philadelphia voters are in the midst of a political science experiment — and they may not even be consciously participating in it. Today, Dem...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (TNS) — Twenty-four years ago, America came under attack when planes struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It was an assault ...

Charlie Kirk was one of the heroes of my son, George Wagner. A faith-believing, truth-talking, debating, political figure of sorts, Kirk debated with ...

Thursday marked the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that shook the nation and changed the world. Nearly 3,000 people lost their liv...

There is only one appropriate reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk and that is horror and anger at the taking of a human life. We live in a nation w...

The buggy whip endures. Not, of course, as a commonly used piece of equipment to spur on a steed or two on your daily travels, but as a short-hand epi...

(THE CONVERSATION) — Say you win a radio sweepstakes giving you two tickets to a sold-out concert the upcoming weekend. You eagerly text your friend a...

(TNS) — Now that servers are not going to be taxed on their tips, do we still have to tip them as much? I’m sure that servers and hair stylists and ca...

(TNS) — It’s hard to pin down exactly where President Donald Trump falls on the subject of vaccinations. He launched Operation Warp Speed to develop t...

(TNS) — It’s time for a return of the country’s least favorite reality TV show — shutdown theater. To avoid a government shutdown, Congress must pass ...

(TNS) — McDonald’s wants to supersize its competitors’ wages. In many states, restaurants are allowed to pay tipped employees a rate below the minimum...

(TNS) — If the means justify the ends, we’d still be operating under the Articles of Confederation. The Founders understood that the means — the gover...

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