Local Columnists

The public intellectual Irving Kristol famously said that the definition of a neoconservative is “a liberal who has been mugged by reality.” By the sa...

ALBANY (TNS) — The pollster over at Siena College in Loudonville released a doozy several days ago. It might keep you up at night. The national survey...

The Sino-U.S. “cold tech war” is reaching new heights — or rather depths — as tensions are building under the sea. First it was semiconductors. Now it...

Mike Pence, after about seven years of campaigning with Donald Trump, serving with Trump, and showing as much deference as could possibly be expected ...

I should know better than to go to a yard sale. I always see something I think I need — or want. At least in that moment. I probably get it from my la...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Trust is always harder to build than to destroy, and that’s true for financial markets, too. The U.S. has borrowed tens of trillion...

New York’s struggling legal cannabis market has hit another wall in the form of a judge’s order that it must stop issuing new licenses and providing o...

It is sometimes said that the prosecutions of former President Donald Trump are “backfiring” on Democrats. That is, instead of lowering Trump’s politi...

Decades of excessive spending, paid with debt, are hitting America’s credit rating. On Aug. 1 Fitch Ratings downgraded the United States federal gover...

Hillary Clinton can’t say she didn’t warn us. In a new 3,500-word essay on “The Weaponization of Loneliness” in The Atlantic, the former secretary of ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Kathy Hochul’s administration was not especially fond of my recent column. Not that I was surprised. After all, I criticized the state’...

It’s called artificial intelligence because it was created not by nature but by humans, this gift of ours to robots, computers and other specially des...

In a federal courthouse that rioters marched past on their way to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, former President Donald Trump pled not guilt...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — One of the reliably perplexing things about attempts to bring former President Trump to justice is the enduring loyalty of his MAG...

How we listen to music, news and other content as we drive on our daily commute or travel around the country has changed dramatically over the years. ...

Donald Trump has gotten indicted yet again, and, as usual, most of the other Republican candidates have been sympathetic, if not outright deferential,...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — A couple years ago, a column in The Washington Post criticized Gov. Greg Abbott for his decision to pull the licenses of she...

Sometimes I’ll be brought up short by the marking of time. A child I know but haven’t seen in a while appears, only they’re much taller. I think, “Whe...