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Well, the principled stand Democrats took against Congress trying to overturn duly certified elections lasted all of a month or two. After rightly exc...

President Joe Biden has a strategy for selling his next massive economic recovery bill: exploiting fear of losing out to China. “If we don’t get movin...

When he was running for president in 2016, Donald Trump said he was going to build a 1,000-mile concrete wall, maybe 30 feet high, on the southern bor...

So here we are, one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Let’s go over some of the things we’ve learned. “Avoid it like the plague” is no longer a useful ...

The response by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his administration to a series of sexual harassment allegations against the governor has brought renewed attenti...

On April 7, 2017, less than four years ago, a majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate joined a majority of Republicans to sign a letter supporting th...

There’s some scientific justification for using vaccine passports to allow vaccinated people — and only vaccinated people — back into restaurants, mov...

Over the course of a deepening sexual harassment scandal, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly asked that New Yorkers wait to form an opinion until Attorn...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Whether you agree with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s politics or you think his lifting of COVID-19 restrictions was the result of “Nean...

Millions of older Americans are still hunting for appointments to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Millions of younger Americans are waiting impatient...

In practice, the standard for when elected officials insist that a governing colleague must resign following accusations of misconduct is reminiscent ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The police knocked on my door as I stood in my underwear, before my closet, trying to pick out a well-coordinated outfit for the day. ...

Renewable energy projects have faced serious and unjust criticism in Upstate New York. A recent commentary argued that the newly implemented process f...

This year it looks like New York will legalize marijuana use for adults, which is legal in 15 other states. There was a dispute on how to carve up the...

Earlier this month, I wrote about the controversies surrounding Dr. Seuss and the notion that the iconic author from western Massachusetts might be th...

For more than a year now, news headlines, social media posts and even personal conversations have focused on the Coronavirus. Topics covered governmen...

The sanctity and security of the U.S. Capitol has not been breached since that woeful day in January. But whispers and threats circulate in dark corne...

To give you some idea, my personal Road to the Final Four, as the TV announcers call it, began in junior high. My buddy Don and I were apprentice bask...