united states

A look at battleground state numbers
Commentary, Nation World
May 15, 2024
Democrats calm themselves over President Joe Biden’s miserable poll numbers by noting that the election remains months away, an eternity in politics. ...
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No OTH digital edition Monday
Oct 07, 2023
Due to the Veterans Day federal holiday, a digital edition of the Olean Times Herald will not be published for Monday. The Times Herald’s offices will...
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The US-China conflict to watch is the Chip War
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Dec 12, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Most Americans are unaware that the United States is already fighting a war with China that involves Taiwan. This war isn't yet b...
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Civil war is not coming
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Oct 14, 2022
In two days at Shiloh in April 1862, the Union and Confederate armies altogether suffered 23,000 casualties, a shattering total that was the worst of ...
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Make Saudi Arabia pay for conduct
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 13, 2022
Generations of reliance on Saudi oil has skewedthe United States'relationship with the corrupt medieval monarchy. The economic reality precluded the B...
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Student loan relief on shaky ground
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Oct 03, 2022
A U.S. president isn’t a king. No matter how much some who hold the office would wish it otherwise. Even if you believe in your heart of hearts that s...
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Declining life expectancy in the US
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Sep 01, 2022
Not for a hundred years has there been such a pronounced drop in U.S. life expectancy, from 79 years in 2019 to 76 just two years later, in 2021, acco...
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The West shows fatigue over war in Ukraine
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Jun 20, 2022
I was in the hills of northern Italy last week, mostly on vacation but also curious to see how the war in Ukraine has affected life next door in Europ...
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