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If people have any chance of living here affordably, New York City and its environs desperately need more housing, with a substantial share of it rese...

Ron DeSantis seems to believe that his best chance of becoming the GOP presidential nominee is to be more extreme than the guy he needs to defeat, Don...

There’s being fortunate in your enemies, and then there’s having enemies who are helping you take the first step in your political comeback. Donald Tr...

WELLSVILLE — In the mid-1990s I convinced my sister Pat to join the Great Wellsville Balloon Rally Committee with me. It ended up being more than a de...

Two years from now, New York City may run short on power, potentially leading to blackouts during normal summer temperatures. Heat waves would exacerb...

There has been a highly political battle on Capitol Hill — actually, that’s the only kind of battle they have on Capitol Hill — over U.S. defense poli...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — It’s my full-time job but wallowing in our broken politics can sometimes make for a dark world. Why wouldn’t I look forward to goin...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — When this column appears, I will have just arrived in Odesa, Ukraine. I want to see how Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are fari...

House Republicans voted to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs and personnel at the Pentagon, and one wonders whether the U.S. military will ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — No, climate change isn’t solely responsible his year’s Canadian wildfires, despite what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and ot...

During Congress’ most recent District Work Period, I had the privilege of hosting roundtable discussions in four communities across our district — Elm...

ATLANTA (TNS) — Millions of Americans have moved to the Southeast over the past few years, bringing immense wealth and transforming real estate market...

If there’s one thing that defines the Biden Administration and the modern Democratic Party (and the modern Republican Party too, but who’s counting?),...

Across New York, many celebrated Pride Month this June, honoring LGBTQ+ people and our historic struggle for equality and equity. But for the majority...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — A 6-3 conservative supermajority has really put the “supreme” in “Supreme Court,” and not in a good way. The court’s major rulings ...

Mika Brzezinski, co-host of the MSNBC program “Morning Joe,” is very cross with the White House staff. It isn’t, she believes, doing a good enough job...

A friend took a photograph that I liked and I wanted to include it in the next church newsletter. “Text it to me,” I said. He frowned, and I remembere...

One of the murkier aspects of congressional Republicans’ investigation of President Biden’s financial history concerns an allegation that Biden, when ...