Opinion

A lot of folks grumble and growl and punch the air when they see commentary they dislike on TV. Others scrunch the editorial page into a ball. And swear they will never read that rag again. Maybe you are one of them? Well, I have been a rare and lucky guy. I got to express such […]

Amid all the troubles occupying our attention, one of the more worrisome is also one of the least visible. It’s the loss of public faith in the effectiveness of our representative democracy. While most state and local governments — and certain federal agencies — have maintained public support during the pandemic, concern over our system

Government overreach has been a hallmark of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s time in office, but his recent dictates surrounding forced-food purchases at bars have crossed a new line. Surely, the governor has more pressing things to address than debate the merits of chicken wings. For example, the state budget was ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, virus-related

This is an election year, so we can expect a fresh round of China-bashing. American politicians love to use China as a punching bag; it never stops, really, but the trend accelerates when candidates are running for office. Some punches deserve to be thrown — China does a lot of things we don’t like. It challenges

President Trump, the national security advisor, director of the National Economic Council, and the Department of Labor secretary have all made it clear that investments in non-transparent, Chinese state-owned company securities are too risky and dangerous for federal-employee retirement investing.  The president’s statement [on July 14] effectively ending the Obama-Biden China exemption to investment transparency

I have spent a long time in politics, and over those years one thing has remained constant: There are a lot more Americans who criticize government than there are who serve and do something about it.  I’ll admit, there have been times when I have felt a bit resentful. It’s hard to enter the fray,

Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay (R,C,I–Pulaski) and members of the Minority Conference on July 10 joined law-and-order professionals demanding state leaders reverse dangerous policies that have continuously compromised public safety and undermined the ability of law-enforcement agencies to do their jobs as violent, and often deadly, incidents increase across New York state. The Assembly Republican Conference

The United States is the most powerful country in the world. By any measure, we are preeminent. We have challenges and vulnerabilities, and we are not as dominant as we once were, but no one else comes close to America’s military, economic, and political might. Whether we like it or not, we cannot escape the responsibility

Almost 5 million Americans got a job in the month of June, marking the second straight month of economic recovery after our nation’s economy was ravaged by the after-effects of the [corona]virus. Since the bottom of the temporary, but dramatic economic slowdown, almost 8.8 million Americans have gotten jobs (according to the U.S. Bureau of

A few weeks ago, The New York Times ran an article noting that with the U.S. preoccupied by the coronavirus pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests, and massive unemployment, “its competitors are moving to fill the vacuum, and quickly.”   Russia, China, North Korea, Iran… All are testing how far they can go, seeking to exploit our weaknesses