Commentary

Former President Barack Obama promised to close the prison on the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay nearly 12 years ago, but the notorious facility that wil...

ALBANY (TNS) — As it happens, I spent an hour last week taking the sexual harassment training that Gov. Andrew Cuomo mandated for employees in New Yor...

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...

Should former President Donald Trump be banned permanently from Facebook? The question of a permanent ban is about whether Facebook’s “supreme court” ...

Cheyney (Pa.) University is the nation’s oldest historically black university, founded in 1837. I graduated from Cheyney in December 1975. I was part ...

I am so glad to see that everything in Congress has been taken care of. The pandemic is under control, the stimulus is taken care of, the economy is h...

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...