Opinion

We are now 452 days into President Trump’s second term. As many Americans observed Easter or Passover this month, the president again chose vulgarity, menace, and spectacle. In remarks about the Iran war, he went so far as to warn that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” He also […]

In recent weeks, it has become harder to ignore what is happening to American journalism. Reporters have been arrested while doing their jobs. The home of a Washington Post journalist was searched. Public-records requests—the backbone of public accountability— are increasingly delayed, denied, or allowed to wither through bureaucratic indifference. At the same time, major newsrooms […]

Snow is more than frozen water. It’s a regulator of climate and weather. Its bright surface reflects much of the sun’s energy back to space, helping keep regional and even global temperatures cooler. As snowpacks accumulate and melt, they smooth the annual water cycle, delaying runoff that might otherwise arrive as damaging winter rain and […]

Typically, when one year ends and another begins, we look back—cataloging disappointments, tallying progress and resolving to do better next time. There’s nothing wrong with that ritual. But this year, I want to try a different tack. Rather than rehash the negatives of 2025, I want to focus on something that feels increasingly scarce in […]

Where is America headed? It’s a question we all must confront amid the political violence shaking the very core of our country. Wednesday’s assasination of the conservative influencer Charlie Kirk lands like a shockwave across an already fragile America. Each headline of another shooting—whether it claims a public leader, schoolchildren, or someone walking down the […]

While the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking drama continues to unfold on the national stage, local communities in the Catskills—from Saugerties to Woodstock to Earlton—are contending with their own troubling cases of sexual exploitation. Saugerties is facing two significant matters. In one case, a town police officer has been charged with multiple felony counts alleging he […]

I love flags.  Betsy Ross designed one for our country but that is not the only one you might want to celebrate on Flag Day this Saturday, June 14. How about the yellow one with the snake? My favorite. Or it was until someone waved it above a crowd at our nation’s Capital on Jan. […]