The Buffalo Chronicle
Opinion
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Do Democrats have an s-word problem?
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS If President Trump wanted the Cuban community in Florida to worry that the Biden Democrats were soft on socialism, it seems to have worked. Cuban-Americans helped the president defy…
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KOLB: Taking action to reform the parole board
BY BRIAN M. KOLB Media coverage seems to be ever-present in each of our lives. There are daily coronavirus reports, opinions on school re-openings and political campaign ads on repeat. It seems…
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The US is unprepared for Africa’s growing terror threat
BY EMILY ESTELLE Maj. Gen. Dagvin Anderson, the commander of US Special Operations Command Africa, gave a sobering assessment of the increasing security threats posed by al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and…
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How a blast from the past could save NYC again
BY E.J. McMAHON Forty-five years ago this month, then-Gov. Hugh L. Carey and the state Legislature passed a landmark law, the Financial Emergency Act, designed to rescue Gotham from imminent bankruptcy. The…
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On measuring school quality, ‘Education Week’ misses the mark
BY IAN KINGSBURY Education Week released its A-F grades for states on school quality last week. New York earned a B-, appreciably better than the nationwide C average. A closer look at scoring methodology, however,…
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COVID recovery must be approached with caution
BY PAUL H. KUPIEC Emergency lockdowns have been successful in keeping ICUs from being overwhelmed, but as the economy reopens, virus spread continues, generating recessionary pressure on the economy. There are at…
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To confront China, Pompeo has to think carefully about European outreach
BY DALIBOR ROHAC After last month’s visit to the United Kingdom and Denmark, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s upcoming trip to Central Europe — specifically, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria, and Poland — represents…
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The internet, COVID-19, and the open society
BY BRET SWANSON One promise of the internet was to lower barriers. It would obliterate the distance limitations of geography and the gatekeeping functions of big media, big business, big academia, and…
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Does the US need a financial or tech giant to propel 5G and thwart Huawei?
BY CLAUDE BARFIELD Last Friday, Michael Auslin, a former AEI colleague, wrote a timely opinion piece in Financial Times in which he urgently called for a latter-day financial or tech giant to “step into…
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Payroll tax deferral could be more complicated than it sounds
BY ALAN D. VIARD On Saturday, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum directing the Treasury Department to allow employers to defer their employees’ Social Security payroll taxes. The administration claims legal authority to take…
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DiPIETRO: Give local businesses a fighting chance
BY DAVID DIPIETRO We’ve sacrificed and done what was asked of us by King Cuomo during COVID-19. We’ve dealt with masks, moving phase requirements, lack of direction, loss of contact with friends,…
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SWANSON: Reaching the broadband end zone, going the last 5 yards
BY BRET SWANSON We’ve recounted the many ways the pandemic revealed the superlative capacity, coverage, and robustness of the American internet. COVID-19 has even spurred accelerations of long-overdue innovations, such as telemedicine. But intense reliance on network…
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PETHOKOUKIS: Is America going to settle for slow economic growth?
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS Just before Independence Day, the Congressional Budget Office released its updated 10-year economic forecast. Basically, it shows a 5 percent bump in real GDP next year before settling into 2…
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HAMMOND: Cuomo administration ducks important questions on nursing homes
BY BILL HAMMOND A new report from the state Health Department tries to deflect blame for thousands of coronavirus deaths in the state’s nursing homes—but undermines its own case by withholding data…
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MCMAHON: Quick economic comeback requires action
BY E.J. McMAHON The coronavirus pandemic has prompted an unprecedented shutdown of normal human activity and commerce across much of the developed world. New York State and the nation have entered uncharted…
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DHUME: India could quickly slide towards closed-mindedness, cronyism and mediocrity
BY SADANAND DHUME Will we look back on 2020 as the year India formally ended its nearly 30-year-long romance with globalisation? With the coronavirus continuing its grim march across the planet, India…
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PETHOKOUKIS: America’s cities are suffering from both health and opportunity crises
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS In the 2007 book “The World Without Us,” journalist Alan Weisman speculates about life after people. If everyone suddenly vanished, what would happen to all the stuff we’ve built?…
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BLUMENTHAL: China’s steps backward began under Hu Jintao
BY DAN BLUMENTHAL China’s stunningly reckless response to the coronavirus pandemic has hastened the need for an examination of America’s problematic policy of engagement with China and a determination of what went…
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ORRELL: Pandemics, elites, and the future of the cities
BY BRENT ORRELL Pandemics have not historically been equal-opportunity offenders. Those with resources tend to decamp to country estates while those without bear the brunt of infections and deaths. Two maps from recent editions of…
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PLETKA: Why withdrawing from the Open Skies Treaty is no big deal
BY DANIELLE PLETKA In late May, the Trump administration withdrew from the Open Skies Treaty, a move that prompted the requisite jeremiads about the international order, arms control, and the fecklessness of…
