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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...

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...

ALBANY (TNS) — Roger Stone, the nation’s best source of election news that absolutely must be true even if it isn’t, is back with another big scoop. D...

One of the more appalling moments in the recent history of the House of Representatives occurred recently in the Capitol Visitor Center. Speaker Nancy...

The stakes could not be higher. Food insecurity is rising. Unemployment relief is waning. The strands of a virus-related safety net — holds on utility...

Just when it seemed some of the most disheartening trends in the U.S. economy were finally beginning to reverse, COVID-19 arrived to entrench them. Th...

As I am sure many locals may have noticed, there has been a growing debate over Portville Central School staying open in the wake of several cases of ...

The European Union is taking on Big Tech, an example that our government — and the incoming administration in Washington — should follow. Antitrust ch...

President Donald Trump came to office unencumbered by close study of our founding documents. From the start, there was only one bit of the Constitutio...

Editor’s Note: For the past several months, the Olean Times Herald, in collaboration with interviewer Marcia Kelly, has published a series of articles...

In the wake of a lousy November jobs report, we pray Congress snaps out of its inexplicable and damaging dawdling and swiftly agrees on a new stimulus...

With COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths climbing, policymakers understandably want a response that protects lives and livelihoods. Many have ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s specious claim that Joe Biden won the presidency through massive voter fraud has been shot down in multiple federal cou...