As we approach an election, we often think that the person we elect has more power than they really do. This is especially true of presidential candidates. In this election cycle, one of the biggest issues is the economy. Many Trump supporters look back and think that they were better off ...

The Republicans are not sincere when they address the issue of immigration. This is easy to tell because they want to perform a wholesale deportment of all our current immigrants even though many of those fall into the category of “good propaganda for the Right.” The Right has ...

During the last Art Walk a few weeks ago I noticed the big posters on the Republican party headquarters exhorting me to “Save America.” That encounter raised the obvious question: Save it from what? The Republican answer, as I understand it, is from government overreach and the loss of our ...

A.I. or artificial intelligence is on many people’s mind and lips recently. A.I. is a huge verbal umbrella the way “heath care” covers dieticians to brain surgeons and “educators” cover Marine drill sergeants to kindergarten teachers in the Bloomingdale School. “Artificial ...

Political geographer Reece Jones (University of Hawaii), author of “White Borders,” writes that from its inception “the United States was built on the dual foundation of open immigration for whites from Northern Europe and racial subordination and exclusion of enslaved people from Africa, ...

I am one of the many people in our broader community who strongly oppose the proposed re-location of the Adirondack Park Agency’s headquarters to downtown Saranac Lake. I outlined my reasons in two letters to Gov. Hochul — in May 2023 and on April 4 this year. My last letter, printed ...