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An extraordinary new interview with the Uvaldeschool district’s police chief ,Pete Arredondo, answers some lingering questions about how theMay 24mass...

FORT WORTH, Texas — When my Texas-loving 16-year-old niece came for a visit in the fall, she left the state disappointed with only one thing. She and ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Given a huge drug mess being seen inOregon, maybe we ought to think twice about decriminalizing hard drugs. The call to decriminalize...

Uvalde school district Police Chief Pete Arredondo is hard pressed to find much sympathy or support anywhere these days. His failure to breach the cla...

Like Wyatt Earp after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Donald Trump and his allies mounted up for a vendetta ride in Georgia. Unlike Earp and his poss...

Imagine a world where people could get the healthcare they need from the provider they want regardless of income or employment status. Imagine a world...

Populist critics have gone after the new $40 billion in aid to Ukraine hammer and tongs. Donald Trump has complained that we are sending billions to U...

Monday was the deadline for all state officials to file their personal financial disclosures, although some, like ComptrollerTom DiNapoliand Attorney ...

There’s something admirable in the consistency of abortion’s most ardent opponents. If a fertilized egg is a full-fledged human life, its destruction ...

The most intriguing politician in the Republican Party is an uncharismatic governor who's trying to make the GOP's culture war appealing to suburban m...

The 428,000 net new jobs last month in the Labor Department’s report is mildly encouraging since every major industry added workers. But the report al...

Think about it this way: If Justice Samuel Alito gets his way and the Trumpist Supreme Court majority voids Roe v. Wade, many states will be forced to...

There was something ridiculous about the half-a-dozen protestors in “Handmaid’s Tale” costumes showing up at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s...

New York’s political parties unfairly stifle independent candidates and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was willing to exact political retribution, and even ...

A few weeks ago, my husband and I lost a friend to an opioid overdose. He was not the first person we knew who died from an overdose, but he was perha...

In the 2020 election, Republicans enjoyed substantial success in their efforts to demonize Democrats by labeling many as socialists and assailing thos...

We keep writing about Acting Steuben County state Supreme Court Justice Patrick McAllister because he is the honest Upstate judge who is handling the ...

When Vladimir Putin stood on a Red Square podium Monday, at the annual celebration of the Soviet victory in World War II over Nazi Germany, he looked ...