Opinion

The Pentagon has a well-deserved reputation for erring on the side of secrecy when classifying documents. Now it wants even more power to hide informa...

As our nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, we should reflect on the values we share as a democr...

STATE COLLEGE (TNS) — It was my turn to gather with the church preschool children for monthly chapel time. Soon I would be in the sanctuary with three...

When families in Pennsylvania open their electric bills, they need an explanation for why electricity keeps getting more expensive. Come November, vot...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Almost two decades ago, when trillions of dollars in private housing debt proved unsustainable, governments had to step in to prevent...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — For the past decade, Democratic progressives have regularly challenged the party’s establishment, with intermittent success. This y...

As of June 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was paying to store $2.9 million of rotten “super cereal” and $10 million of fo...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania have been known as a cradle of industrialists, of quarterbacks and of robots. But for a period ...

This week, at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, U.S. Sen. David McCormick convened some of America’s top leaders, including President Trump, and ...

Recently, a nurse told me she had to choose between paying for her husband’s surgery and putting a new roof on their home. “We’re praying for no rain,...

CHICAGO (TNS) — If we want to consider what’s possible for Ukraine, the people of Poland are living proof. They gained freedom from communist rule at ...

It often feels like the only predictable thing about President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is that he’s unpredictable. At a NATO summit on Wednesday...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — As more and more Americans put their heads into the smiling noose of socialism, some of the politicians stringing them up are drop...

LONDON (TNS) — There’s a simple statistic that often stops people in their tracks. It is this: Reading for pleasure as a child is the factor that stud...

Modern politics in many quarters is more performance art than serious policy, a never-ending quest to generate votes rather than address substantive i...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Democratic establishment, shaken by the rise of progressive socialists, is right to wonder where this wave might lead. The simi...

No state built America more than Pennsylvania. On the heels of our 250th year of independence, most think of how Pennsylvanians built the nation ideol...

Iran has broken the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, attacking Gulf shipping, refusing to grant IAEA access to nuclear sites, and stating it wil...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Every 50 years, it’s become traditional for the United States to celebrate the survival of its democracy for another half century, ...

A Texas woman simultaneously held full-time jobs with the state government and the City of Austin without disclosing the conflict to either employer, ...