Commentary

President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will begin removing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the month and complete the withdrawal by...

ALBANY (AP) — As of this writing, it wasn’t entirely clear why officers stopped Daunte Wright. Police say Wright, who was shot and killed Sunday when ...

So are we having a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. or not? University of Minnesota’s Michael Osterholm has forecast a COVID “Category...

When I read about the senseless killing of Daunte Wright by a Minnesota police officer, I thought of my friends Isaac Cudjoe and Kevin Isabelle-Peete....

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has it right: The filibuster should not be eliminated. The Senate needs the filibuster as a tool to drive the t...

President Joe Biden has consistently stressed the need to address the racial inequity that plagues America. Nowhere is this inequity more pronounced t...

Just six months ago — it seems like so much longer — many Democrats were supremely confident about their prospects in the 2020 election. Some saw Joe ...

Staffers in the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo worked on a private poll while on the taxpayer dime. The Times Union obtained emails showing that Melissa ...

After a year of angry battles over lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccinations, a new front has opened in the coronavirus culture war: vaccine “passport...

In a comeback story for the ages, the U.S. bald eagle population in the lower 48 states has quadrupled in the last 12 years. At its most endangered po...

Great Lakes Cheese is threatening to leave the area if we don’t concede. Using eminent domain is an example of government power against private citize...

Fresh, clean water is the very foundation of all life. Without it, nothing — human, plant or animal — can survive. For far too long, our neighbors bot...

To our Muslim brothers and sisters throughout the world: As-salaamu ‘alaykum! (Peace be with you!) More than a year has passed has since the COVID-19 ...

Dire COVID predictions about end of mask mandate were way off. Let’s be glad for that Recently, Dr. Anthony Fauci acknowledged something truly shockin...

I am writing this in defense of the English language. Even though it is a somewhat mongrel language, it deserves a little more respect than it receive...

If Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ever sets up a presidential exploratory committee, it should have to disclose an enormous in-kind contribution from CBS N...

And just like that, the effort to organize nearly 6,000 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., was defeated. The announcement Friday mornin...

I needed a meeting — with myself and maybe the CEO of the universe — and not where I’ve lived and worked, often in isolation, for the past year. This ...