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It’s not 2010 again in GOP politics and never will be, but you could be forgiven for having flashbacks to the beginnings of the tea party. A leaderles...

One of the most contentious claims Donald Trump ever made was his insistence that he had been the target of spying. He made the charge in several diff...

There is a wrenching debate going on inside the Republican Party over the simplest of questions: Should the party look backward or forward? Just becau...

In an ideal world, it wouldn’t be hard for the Republican Party to do two things. The first is to acknowledge that former President Donald Trump’s cla...

When President Donald Trump left Washington last January after losing his noisy battle to overturn the 2020 election, it was tempting to heave a sigh ...

The failures of President Joe Biden’s first year in office are obvious to all. Inflation is raging. COVID is raging. Crime is spiking in some big citi...

It was only a matter of time before Ron DeSantis’ rising star ran into the unmovable object of Donald Trump’s will to continue to dominate the GOP. A ...

After months of wrangling, the U.S. Senate plans to vote this week on an ambitious Democratic bill on voting rights. The bill is already doomed. Senat...

Olean native Andrew McCarthy announced plans in April to run for Congress in the current 23rd Congressional District, where Rep. Tom Reed had announce...

So here’s my question: Let’s say you’re Attorney General Merrick Garland. Filing a criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump should be...

As life returned somewhat to normal last year after the pandemic shutdowns of 2020, America’s briefly reduced greenhouse gas emissions have started cl...

The Constitution must be defended — except when it must be jettisoned for convenience. We’ve heard much upon the anniversary of January 6 about how Do...

The only legitimate reason to stage an official anniversary commemoration of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots would be to issue a call to unity and urge the n...

When it comes to prognostication, my favorite philosopher has always been the eminent Lawrence Peter Berra. “It’s tough to make predictions,” Yogi fam...

It’s an election year — and Americans will be voting sooner than many people may realize. The first primary election is in Texas on March 1, fewer tha...

On the one-year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol Thursday, U.S. Rep. Tom Reed said it was “one of the darkest days of my congressional ca...

For the last year, we’ve heard one commentator after another tell us that American democracy is in crisis. The source of that crisis, we are told, is ...

The fullness of time, and now the omicron wave, have made it obvious how preposterous the chief lines of criticism against Donald Trump were during th...