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The backlash is coming. It already seems clear that the first major political and culture eruption of the Biden years will be a roiling populist backl...

The country’s dilemma about what to do about Thanksgiving this year is reflected back to me hour after hour in my work as a family and couples therapi...

The vaccines are coming. In the last two weeks, two major pharmaceutical companies have made announcements about their covid-19 vaccines. Pfizer’s tes...

With pandemic numbers hitting new highs, it would be natural to be inclined toward negativity. But the news is not all bad. The U.S. economy had a sur...

A twisty, narrow way in the cramped heart of Vienna’s oldest quarter, a busy street in an upscale neighborhood of Tehran and remote woods in Nigeria s...

No one expected Donald Trump to handle a defeat in the 2020 election well. It was predictable he’d deny that he really lost and allege the vote was ri...

Ten years ago, a general pessimism began to set in among some pundits and technologists who convinced themselves that America can’t do big things anym...

It’s never a bad time to count our blessings, but this week leading up to Thanksgiving often brings more to mind. Many of us are talking about current...

Next week, Americans will confront how to celebrate a national holiday that is for many people all about togetherness amid a pandemic that demands tha...

ALBANY (TNS) — If there’s light at the end of this dark pandemic tunnel, it’s in recent announcements that effective vaccines are on the way. That’s t...

Remember the debate over the meaning of the phrase “defund the police”? Repeated over and over on the progressive left, it seemed pretty clear — it me...

My grandfather, Harry S. Truman, initiated the protocols for the peaceful transfer of presidential power as we know them today. He invited President-e...

Black Lives Matter came up with the single most effective political slogan of the year. While no one was likely to be overly impressed with Joe Biden’...

The 2016 Paris Agreement represented the first global effort to address climate change. It’s become clear, however, that only a fraction of the 197 si...

I am not one for coddling children, but the narrative that our kids bear some outsize responsibility for the spread of COVID is demonstrably false. Si...

The Pfizer vaccine, along with its likely successors, is a very good thing for the U.S. and the world. Yet it's also likely to reshape America in some...

It occurs to me that some of your readership may be wondering how it happens that Joe Biden could be declared the 2020 presidential election winner by...

Editor’s Note: These commentaries are a collaboration between the Olean Times Herald and interviewer Marcia Kelly with area residents, in hopes of cre...