Comment & Opinion

Pennsylvania took a historic step forward with the passage of Act 1 of 2023 and Senate Bill 88, which eliminated out-of-pocket costs for supplemental ...

STATE COLLEGE (TNS) — Consider the following example: I am offered a new job containing more responsibility and longer hours. As part of my choosing w...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The economy is far too tight for many Americans—more about how to fix that in a minute — but first some good news: Household wealth...

Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. A Los Angeles advocacy group that sued the city twice was simultaneously being funded by the city itself. S...

PORTVILLE, N.Y. — Who knew we would ever be celebrating that temperatures reached 20 degrees? I mean, FINALLY reached 20 degrees again. Those days sur...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Put me down as an AI optimist. Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the economy and make Americans richer, healthie...

CHICAGO — Forty years ago, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. It was the last time our legislature passed a comprehensive...

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...