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Sen. Joe Manchin, the self-styled conservative Democrat from West Virginia, is driving progressives crazy — and he doesn’t seem to mind. Manchin says ...

The sexual harassment accusations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo by two former staffers present a moment of truth for the governor’s fellow Democrats. They...

Once again, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has put a former member of his administration in the chairman’s seat of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics. The quest...

President Joe Biden says he’s ready to resuscitate the Iran deal former President Barack Obama disastrously gave us if Iran quits its advanced uranium...

ALBANY (TNS) — For nearly a year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has had the power to make law in New York. The authority — given to him by state lawmakers in the ...

It’s one of the most basic questions of the U.S. Capitol riot investigation: What was the rioters’ plan? What did they think was going to happen when ...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — There is an old saying, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” This year, the New York state Legislature is considering a ...

Since Facebook is a free service, it is likely many of its users accept, however grudgingly, that the social media giant will use some personal inform...

American democracy is suffering a crisis of confidence. In too many states, the very mechanics of elections has become a partisan and polarizing issue...

There’s some debate over the ability of the human mind to really comprehend numbers, especially as they get bigger. Five is simple. One can easily pic...

Throughout the pandemic, the press has been excoriatingly harsh on a governor who was slow to act, unnecessarily endangered the lives of the elderly, ...

On paper, the United States is committed to withdrawing its last 2,500 troops from Afghanistan less than 10 weeks from now, on May 1. That’s under a d...

The details of what went wrong in Texas last week — most likely the biggest forced blackout in U.S. history — will take time to establish. So will exa...

If you thought Democrats could be counted on to run redistricting fairly now that they’re in charge of state government, you thought wrong. We’ve give...

When Joe Biden launched his campaign for the presidency in 2019, his economic proposals were relatively modest updates of the middle-class-oriented ag...

Well, it’s on. Donald Trump ended his post-presidency silence not with a blast at President Joe Biden, or at the left, or at the House impeachment man...

Vaccine shortages and precious doses wasted. Unnavigable systems for making appointments. A racial and economic divide in distribution. Scary virus mu...

Many are anxious these days and who can blame them? Pandemic. Serious divisions. Unrest. When might schools and jobs be stable again? Our supposedly r...