Opinion

(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...

(THE CONVERSATION) — When I started bird-watching as a teenager, a few years after the first Earth Day in 1970, several species that once thrived in m...

Like some 1890s redux, are we as a society feeling uppity against monopolies — Big Railroads replaced by Big Tech — are we about to bring out the pitc...

NEW YORK (TNS) — President Donald Trump’s second term is barreling ahead with the political momentum typical of a first term — and it shows no outward...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Let’s play, “Who said it, and when?” “…the American people have accepted centralization of government, regimentation of activities...

DEAR RUSTY: I would like to get an answer concerning taking my Social   Security benefit soon and switching to my spouse’s benefit when he begins to t...

Crime isn’t the only major problem facing Chicago. Its underfunded pension system is devastating its finances and offers a clear warning to other citi...

NEW YORK (TNS) — On paper, these are good times for the U.S. economy. The latest GDP numbers show growth was at 3.3% in the second quarter. Business i...

Few investments yield a 16,800% return in just four days, but apparently Pennsylvania gets this outsized return every July. No, it’s not bitcoin. Nor ...

Even if you agreed with the Trump administration’s deployment of California National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles to protect federal b...

One of the traits that makes America great is its wilderness. The Trump administration is moving to open to extraction and development tens of million...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — As President Donald Trump decides to invest in Intel to secure American chips, batteries are not far behind. For too long, America ...

A decade ago, an encouraging bipartisan consensus was emerging for the need to reform public-safety policies in a way that improved crime-fighting and...

When Congress established a new Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) as part of its budget reconciliation package, the intent was clear: Stop ru...

For years, I’ve heard the statement that certain people “never met a stranger.” I never quite understood what it meant. Like, to me, we encounter peop...