Opinion

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pennsylvania Republicans are taking stock of sweeping Democratic wins up and down the ballot Tuesday, including a pivotal state Sup...

While many areas of the country held elections Tuesday, Congress continued to shirk its main job: passing a budget for fiscal year 2026, which began o...

I’m a YouTube TV subscriber and a lifelong football fan, and right now I’m furious. In my house, fall weekends are sacred. I grew up in Kansas, where ...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Was it a blue wave? It depends whom you ask. But Democrats, desperate to gain during President Donald Trump's second administrati...

“My kid’s getting A’s at Harvard” isn’t much of a flex anymore, thanks to a report from the erstwhile Ivy League institution admitting that roughly 60...

A chorus of voices from across the political spectrum demands that members of Congress forfeit their pay during the current government shutdown, which...

Ten months into Donald Trump’s second term in office, his approval ratings are significantly lower than when his term began. Such declines are not unc...

If Pennsylvania held a vote for our state slogan, unfortunately, I’d have to nominate: “If you have low expectations, you’ll never be disappointed.” O...

Three years ago, Josh Shapiro delivered a decisive victory in his gubernatorial race against Doug Mastriano, a state Senator with a strong base of sup...

Starting Saturday, 2 million Pennsylvanians lost $366 million in monthly SNAP benefits. The federal government shutdown that began Oct. 1 means food s...

Schools have long declared themselves to be gun-free zones. It’s time to make them cellphone-free zones as well. In October, the National Bureau of Ec...

The careening juggernaut that is this increasingly interdependent world’s economy is already subject to enough unpredictable forces as it is: wild wea...

Each November, we “fall back” by setting our clocks one hour earlier as Daylight Saving Time ends. While gaining an extra hour of sleep may sound like...

President Donald Trump has taken significant steps to secure the border and curb illegal immigration, but now he is taking a victory lap with the use ...

LANCASTER — Some GOP lawmakers have claimed they don’t know much about the impact of the federal shutdown on Pennsylvania or about how the changes to ...

In 2015, Democratic judges toppled the conservative dominance of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Before this, Republicans controlled Pennsylvania’s to...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Some college students have learned they won’t have to repay their student loans. Is President Donald Trump’s administration trying ...

Each November, we “fall back” by setting our clocks one hour earlier as Daylight Saving Time ends. While gaining an extra hour of sleep may sound like...

To most of us who aren’t federal employees, the government shutdown has, so far, been a distant partisan spat with limited direct impact on real life....

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Five decades after the creation of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the wake of the Arab oil embargo, the United States is facing...