Opinion

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Twenty years ago, when I first hired him in Baghdad, my Iraqi interpreter and driver Salam was thrilled that the Americans had to...

To promote industrial wind and solar, how far will we go? A proposal in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget would deny municipalities a role in appraising indu...

Whatever else it produced, this week’s visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Moscow did not advance the cause of a just peace in Ukraine. If anythi...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — Sen. Ted Cruz is known for having strong opinions, many of which are needlessly bombastic; some of which are best ignored. B...

Have you ever grieved (or at least felt bad) over the demise of an animal? I don’t mean a beloved domesticated pet. Most of us experience such losses ...

Seemingly everyone in the commentariat has an opinion on what most hadn’t heard or thought of 10 days ago (Silicon Valley Bank), and from there it’s a...

It’s been two decades since, on March 19, 2003, United States forces invaded Iraq. President George W. Bush ordered the invasion to neutralize what he...

ALBANY (TNS) — I’m a fan of the Boston Celtics, which means, among other things, that I’m not especially inclined to give owners of New York basketbal...

The end of the pandemic has been less like a car slamming on the brakes and more like a ship that has turned off its engines and is slowly gliding to ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — If there’s money to be made on the backs of New Yorkers, you can bet that the state’s Democratic lawmakers will find a way to make it...

Professor Nicholas Waddy is just too tenderhearted for his own good. It’s worrisome to watch him fretting in print over the plight of millionaire Serb...

The Attorney General’s office waited. And waited. The bell tolled on the appeal deadline, and as the bell struck, Attorney General Letitia James filed...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — In the brief but spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, we may just have witnessed the best banking crisis ever. It might eve...

Ken Salazar, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, met with the Los Angeles Times for more than an hour while visiting California in November. He was eager t...

Farmers know a thing or two about stewardship. If they don’t take care of their land, eventually it will cost them their livelihoods. Unlike farmers, ...

Day by day, month by month, year by year, greed is ruining the tech industry’s image. This time it was tech’s response to the failure of its primary f...

Last week, after hawkish testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, markets penciled in a half-point increase in interest rates following the...

On Feb. 21, I was admitted to the Olean General Hospital emergency department. If not for the immediate action of the staff working together with the ...