Opinion

Court slaps down bureaucratic excess
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 26, 2026
The Supreme Court issued a directive last week that continues their push to rein in executive branch overreach. The case involved a Biden administrati...
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Have rising living standards pushed marriage out of reach?
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By RACHEL SHEFFIELD 
Jun 26, 2026
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Have rising material expectations made marriage feel less attainable for today’s young adults? Marriage rates have steadily been de...
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The state of political violence in Pa.
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By JEFF BLOODWORTH RealClearPennsylvania 
Jun 26, 2026
It’s not your imagination: American politics, including in Pennsylvania, has become more aggressive and, sadly, violent. From 2024 to 2025, the number...
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Mamdani, Marxists and the rest of us
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By ANDREW WALWORTH RealClearPolitics 
Jun 25, 2026
When New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani equated the lobbying group AIPAC to “monsters” in a blistering get-out-the vote speech last week in Brooklyn, ...
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Waste of the Day: ICE wasted millions on food
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 24, 2026
A tiny contractor’s disastrous time running an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in El Paso came to an end this March. Now, a Gov...
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The AI jobs crisis no one is talking about
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By PARMY OLSON Bloomberg Opinion 
Jun 24, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — Spinning a good narrative is critical to selling artificial intelligence these days. But the leaders of today’s biggest labs are givi...
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Turning good, bad and unexpected into adventures
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By DEB WUETHRICH 
Jun 24, 2026
I would say it’s already been an adventurous summer — except in reality, it just started with June 21, the longest day of the year. I try not to think...
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China isn’t invincible and CRINK is not unified
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By JOSEPH KIM The Dallas Morning News 
Jun 23, 2026
DALLAS (TNS) — The authoritarian challenge is real and growing. I have seen this in my research at the George W. Bush Institute and experienced it fir...
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MAGA meets the Mamdani clones
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By JOE BATTENFELD Boston Herald 
Jun 23, 2026
BOSTON (TNS) — The takeover of the Democratic Party by extremist socialists is gaining new momentum as candidates in several big cities are celebratin...
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America at 250: A different kind of revolution
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By GENE PISASALE RealClearPennsylvania 
Jun 23, 2026
“…everything tending to establish substantial and permanent order, in the affairs of a country, to increase the total mass of industry… is ultimately ...
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Waste of the Day: DOJ did not claw back grants
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 22, 2026
The Department of Justice had $77.5 million worth of expired grant funds sitting in bank accounts and unavailable for use as of Sept. 30, 2025, accord...
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The farm crisis demands certainty from Congress — now
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By ADAM MINTER Bloomberg Opinion 
Jun 22, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — Something is breaking in farm country, and the warning signs are growing harder to ignore. The clearest indicator arrived this spring...
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Dissecting Pa.’s data center debate
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By MARK NICASTRE RealClearPennsylvania 
Jun 22, 2026
You cannot open social media, turn on the news, or read the local paper without hearing about data centers. They have captured the attention of the pu...
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Talking across the divide
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
J. PEDER ZANE RealClearPolitics 
Jun 19, 2026
How we see politics reveals a lot about who we are. But it is less akin to a Rorschach ink blot than one of those reversible images, like the drawing ...
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The only man who wants you to win
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By DERRICK MORGAN 
Jun 19, 2026
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Earlier this year a short, viral video stopped me in my tracks. It featured Steve Harvey, who said your father is really the only m...
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Cholesterol guidelines get welcome overhaul
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 18, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — Last week, I found myself in a situation that could soon be familiar to a lot more Americans: sliding into a CT scanner with a smatte...
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Waste of the Day: Medicaid’s spiritual healing
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 17, 2026
California is using federal Medicaid funds for Native American shamans to treat drug and alcohol addiction with drum circles, spiritual dances and her...
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Social Security and the reality of math and aging
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
By ALLISON SCHRAGER Bloomberg Opinion 
Jun 17, 2026
NEW YORK (TNS) — There are two processes that we cannot escape: aging and math. This applies not only to human beings but also to large government soc...
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Car haters jam up World Cup transit
Comment & Opinion, Opinion
Jun 16, 2026
Soccer fans stranded in the New Jersey marshes wasn’t the image the World Cup organizers were going for, but it’s their own fault that’s what they got...
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