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Looking at reporting and discussion of the 2020 presidential campaign, has any word been misused as often as “misinformation”? In much political debat...

The case Tuesday before the Manhattan federal Court of Appeals got to the constitutional question for which there is only one answer: Can New York Sta...

Remember that ‘80s song “I Need a Hero”? This whole year has me singing the chorus quite a bit. That’s why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are Time magazi...

With the first Americans finally getting vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, it might be tempting to believe the end of the pandemic is at hand....

If there’s one thing that the Hunter Biden laptop episode has proven, it is that former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency aren’t as adept a...

Gen. Lloyd Austin, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of defense, represents a laudable first: If confirmed he’d be the first African A...

Editor’s Note: The writer, a graduate of Olean High School’s Class of 1977, is a program director with the Division of Clinical Research, National Ins...

It’s a free country, but a mechanic can’t hang up a shingle and call himself a doctor — or vice-versa. In many professions, that’s as it should be; co...

November’s election revealed many things about our current political landscape, the most striking of which is that the Democratic coalition is not as ...

Neera Tanden, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to run the Office of Management and Budget — which oversees federal spending and federal regulations — ...

Donald Trump was not the first presidential candidate to perform notably better on election day than pre-election polling had predicted. Ronald Reagan...

Social media has its drawbacks. It’s a shallow, easy vehicle by which to propagate erroneous or misleading information. It has made it easier to detac...

I don’t know if my sister and I were ever the best of friends. We both have scattered memories of our youth, our differences, our sibling rivalries. O...

One of President Donald Trump’s foremost achievements has been to erect a formidable obstacle to his own post-election legal challenges. The federal j...

Reform inevitably evolves into routine, revealing the need for further reform. Progress dies when we become complacent that things are as good as they...

Editor’s Note: The St. Bonaventure University School of Health Professions prepares students for a variety of careers in healthcare. Several students ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Now they want to put a tax on the packages we order online. What a great idea to broach during 2020’s unprecedented holiday shopping ...

Chuck Yeager died this week, at 97. It’s amazing that a great movie has never been made of his life. His was a life that, if anything, was larger than...