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Democrat and Chronicle prints “Chi...

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Trump’s Banana Peel? (306 doesn’t always...

Trump Stole the Election from Himself

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Responsibility after Trump

A Win for Progressivism in 2020

The People Have Spoken

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The Re-election of Donald J. Trump

I Am the Whistleblower

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Trump’s New Colossus

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Trump is not a Phenomenon

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Politics at the Labor Day Parade

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Trump’s Riyadh speech and the root...

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Nuclear War Can Be Stopped

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Trump as Magician in Chief

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#LetWarrenRead

“Yes, Donald!” by John Roche

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Obama’s Farewell Warning is a Chal...

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Listening to the inauguration at the same spot, four years later: From “American Carnage” to “The Hill We Climb”
by [email protected] | Jan 21, 2021 | Politics | 0 |
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by [email protected] | Jan 17, 2021 | Politics | 4 |
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Read MoreI didn’t vote for you, but job well done, Congressman Tom Reed (R-Corning)
by [email protected] | Dec 21, 2020 | Politics | 0 |
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Read MoreTrump’s Banana Peel? (306 doesn’t always equal 306)
by [email protected] | Dec 4, 2020 | Politics | 0 |
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Read MoreTrump Stole the Election from Himself
by [email protected] | Nov 25, 2020 | Politics | 0 |
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Read MoreD & C prints “It’s up to us all to cure what ails this country”
by [email protected] | Nov 22, 2020 | Politics | 0 |
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Read MoreThe election of 2024 could be a replay of 1844
by [email protected] | Nov 15, 2020 | Politics | 1 |
Davy Crockett (center), lifting his famous rifle Betsy, tries to beat off the Mexican troop...
Read MoreResponsibility after Trump
by [email protected] | Nov 14, 2020 | Politics | 0 |
11/14/20, Meadowbrook, Brighton, NY [Photo: David Kramer] by George Cassidy Payne I was texting...
Read MoreA Win for Progressivism in 2020
by [email protected] | Nov 6, 2020 | Politics | 0 |
Theodore Roosevelt in Chicago for the 1912 Progressive Party National Convention. Credit: Chicago...
Read MoreThe People Have Spoken
by [email protected] | Nov 3, 2020 | Politics | 0 |
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Read MoreOn Election Day morning, Bill Pruitt offers “Abating the Wave Machine”
by [email protected] | Nov 3, 2020 | Politics | 0 |
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Read MoreOn election eve, Bill Pruitt offers “The Strange Motion of October 2020” and John Roche offers “Que Sera, Sera”
by [email protected] | Nov 2, 2020 | Politics | 0 |
Early voting at Empire State College, 10/31/20 [Photo: David Kramer] See At Empire State College,...
Read MoreAt Empire State College, I voted for “?”
by [email protected] | Oct 30, 2020 | Politics | 0 |
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Read MoreLetter to the Editor: Joe Biden has honored thousands of military members
by [email protected] | Oct 6, 2020 | Politics | 0 |
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Read MoreThe 2020 Republican National Convention and William Jennings Bryan’s speech at Brown’s Square, August 26th, 1896
by [email protected] | Aug 28, 2020 | History, Politics | 0 |
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Read More10 Reasons President Trump Should Wear a Mask
by [email protected] | May 16, 2020 | Politics | 0 |
— by George Cassidy Payne 1. To symbolically apologize to every woman who he has...
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