Comment & Opinion

The former executive director of a federally-funded housing authority in North Carolina recently pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit theft of a fed...

Sen. Jon Ossoff released a report on July 8 documenting lead exposure in a newborn, mold-related emergency room visits, and a cockroach infestation li...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — For 14 seasons right up to his first run for president, Donald Trump was the star of his own reality shows, "The Apprentice" and th...

Wildlife in north central Pennsylvania benefits from well-planned, sustainable wood harvests for society. But that wood harvest that is so important f...

On Saturday, I heard a candidate for our 15th District in the House of Representatives in Washington, Ray Bilger, speak about his concerns and why he ...

Members of Congress for years have metaphorically run for the hills when confronted with the nation’s looming entitlement crisis, opting for inertia o...

NEW YORK (TNS) — If you are an AI doomer, as a majority of Americans are, then you might find New York’s one-year moratorium on new data centers reass...

In the latest installment of RealClear Opinion Research’s continuing exploration of Pennsylvania public opinion, we partnered again with Emerson Polli...

The city of Oakland, Calif., can serve as a poster child for how not to run municipal garbage service: it spent $2 million in 2024 to issue citations ...

The case for making your life harder By ABBY McCLOSKEY Bloomberg Opinion LONDON (TNS) — One reason we tend to lose cognitive abilities as we get older...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — When the No Surprises Act took effect in 2022, it was a rare feat of bipartisan problem-solving. The law was meant to prevent a onc...

Gambling scandals in sports used to be rare and devastating. In baseball, eight members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox were banned for life after they ...

Democrats attacked Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative with unusual vigor, but who can doubt that a federal behemoth which spends $7 trillion annually has amp...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The annual report of the Social Security board of trustees, issued last month, has prompted Congress to return to one of its favori...

For many Americans across the nation, navigating approvals for necessary health care can feel as challenging as the illness or condition they are trea...

Will the nation’s biannual ritual of moving the clock backward and forward an hour soon be a thing of the past? Perhaps, but it’s no sure thing. The H...

Since 2019, school districts across 24 states and Puerto Rico have lost $225 million to fraud confirmed by the U.S. Department of Education inspector ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The median house price in Nantucket, Massachusetts, is nearly $4 million. It was just $500,000 in 1995. This sounds like a stunning i...

Energy affordability is top of mind across America, but in Northeast Pennsylvania it is especially personal. After living in the region for close to 2...

For almost a decade, the federal government’s budget for Antarctic research included little money for actual scientific inquiry, and a boatload of cas...