Commentary

It always seemed unlikely that Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate Republican leader, would vote to convict the disgraced ex-president who, e...

As the House impeachment managers made their case that former President Donald Trump made blatantly false statements about a stolen election for the p...

It seems like a solution that’s almost too simple: Make more COVID-19 vaccines available by allowing one of the drug manufacturers to increase the amo...

When foreign policy scholars list the best secretaries of state of the last half-century, the usual choices are Henry A. Kissinger, the brilliant but ...

If the need for universal, affordable high-speed internet service wasn’t apparent before the COVID-19 pandemic, it surely is now. So why would Gov. An...

On Jan. 21, President Biden’s first full day in office, White House press secretary Jen Psaki began her briefing with this: “When the president asked ...

The Senate’s impeachment trial of Donald Trump is unprecedented: It’s the first time a president has been tried twice, and the first time an ex-presid...

Before the second impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump began Tuesday, it may have been tempting to think of it as a sequel to a show that had been can...

Figuring out how to combine science with fairness in COVID-19 vaccine distribution is a tricky puzzle. Science can help predict how to distribute limi...

Shouting matches and expletives creating turmoil at 30,000 feet pose a serious danger to airline crews and passengers. While there have always been a ...

It was only a matter of time before Cicero got canceled. The New York Times the other day profiled Princeton classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta, who wa...

When Joe Biden arrived in the White House, he promised a new dawn of unity and bipartisanship. But when he began to pursue a COVID relief bill, he met...

In a recent article the medical chief for Olean General Hospital, Dr. William Mills, noted that, “Vaccine panic is not warranted.” At best, Dr. Mills ...

Marcy Kaptur of Toledo, Ohio is the longest-serving woman in the current Congress. She has also been in the U.S. House of Representatives longer than ...

Congressman Tom Reed should be ashamed for immediately playing politics with the news that Siemens Energy is slashing 530 jobs at its Olean plant. A f...

Back in December, during a virtual meeting with progressive organizations, then-President-elect Joe Biden insisted that he would abide by constitution...

It’s almost time to put another meal on the table. What do you do on yet another winter day when you’ve been pretty much hibernating — or in terms rel...

I hope our transition to “one hospital with two campuses” won’t divide us. We are going to restructure Upper Allegheny Health System into centers of e...