Comment & Opinion

It is disturbing to see yet another authoritarian action by President Donald Trump that makes him look more like a dictatorial king than an American p...

NEW YORK (TNS) — As a species, humans possess a kind of superpower: the ability to survive on a remarkably wide variety of foods, allowing us to thriv...

Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, is one of the last of his kind in Congress. Elected in 2012 amid the Tea Party movement, Massie has been a ...

Democrats who denounce federal indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James as unprecedented weaponizati...

Talk about heartlessness. We got a press release from the Emporium-based state police the other day that set me off as I read it. It was for criminal ...

The federal deficit was $1.8 trillion in fiscal year 2025, according to preliminary estimates published by the Congressional Budget Office. That’s $8 ...

As president of the Pennsylvania State Grange, a large rural advocacy organization, I have the honor of advocating to support some of Pennsylvania’s m...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Being a millionaire isn’t what it used to be. This isn’t a lament, it’s a fact: As Bloomberg News reported recently, almost one-fifth...

The United States earned its independence by fighting a war to protest various indignities imposed by the crown, including levies that prompted the co...

(TNS) — Don’t believe the headlines. The government shutdown is not really about Obamacare. That’s just the pretext. The shutdown is a tactic employed...

It is understandable that people can be angry or frustrated over how and why undocumented people ended up in the United States. It is a problem that d...

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has one of the highest recidivism rates in the nation. That’s why its decision to close the Quehanna Boot C...

Donald Trump is our first Old Testament president. Where critics view him as a self-absorbed tyrant bent on settling personal scores, he is more akin ...

I understand that Kane Borough Council is in the process of hiring a new police chief. As a former president of council and long-time councilman, I wi...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The most important optic of President Donald Trump’s Gaza summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, was who was absent from the roster of...

With inflation continuing to rise, Pennsylvanians have been watching every dollar. Most people looked for obvious savings at the grocery store or the ...

Former Alabama Medicaid employee Natalie Lewis will serve at least three years in prison for aggravated theft by deception after she stole $103,314 in...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has made no secret about his animosity toward the media. But his demand that press outlets pledge not to report “una...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — You don’t have to have fled two communist-leaning countries, as I have, to find it appalling that Philadelphia recently celebrate...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Over the next decade, the U.S. economy will face two big challenges: higher interest rates and AI-generated disruption. Each invites ...