The Buffalo Chronicle
Opinion
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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…
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MCCOY: America needs to rediscover civics in education
BY BRANDON MCCOY Students will learn what educators value. And if recent scores on national exams for history, geography, and civics are any indication, American educators are undervaluing the knowledge that young…
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Stop a US coronavirus outbreak before it starts
BY SCOTT GOTTLIEB The Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread at an alarming rate. More than 20,000 cases have been confirmed in China, with another 23,000 suspected. Many in China aren’t even being…
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BARRON: Trouble in Grand Central’s paradise
BY SETH BARRON On a slushy, snowy December day, the lower concourse of Grand Central Terminal, which includes a mall-style food court, is packed with tourists, commuters, office workers eating lunch—and homeless…
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Takeaways from President Trump’s 2020 State of the Union
On February 4, President Donald Trump delivered his third State of the Union address. Manhattan Institute scholars offer their analysis and reactions to some of his policy proposals and announcements. U.S. Economy…
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HAMMOND: Cuomo stalls on Medicaid
BY BILL HAMMOND Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s response to the Empire State’s big Medicaid deficit, as laid out in his budget presentation on Tuesday, was a disappointing mix of delay, deflection and delegation. In…
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McMAHON: One State, Two Stories
BY E.J. McMAHON From a statewide perspective, New York’s economic performance since the end of the Great Recession hasn’t been especially outstanding, roughly equaling the U.S. averages for growth in private employment…
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McMAHON: One State, Two Stories
From a statewide perspective, New York’s economic performance since the end of the Great Recession hasn’t been especially outstanding, roughly equaling the U.S. averages for growth in private employment and GDP, while…
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Why it’s not simple to just raise the corporate income tax
BY KYLE POMERLEAU It seems like it is conventional wisdom that if Democrats take the White House and the Senate in November the corporate income tax rate is going to go up.…
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The Board of Regents push a reckless spending spree
BY E.J. McMAHON New York State is facing its biggest budget deficit since Gov. Cuomo took office at the end of the Great Recession — but you’d never know it from watching…
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Blame Cuomo for the state budget crisis
BY BILL HAMMOND In spite of a growing and healthy economy, New York is facing a multibillion-dollar budget shortfall, and concerned citizens deserve a straight accounting of what went wrong. Gov. Andrew…
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HAMMOND: Albany’s Medicaid crisis is self-inflicted
BY BILL HAMMOND In 2020, the biggest headache facing Albany will be Medicaid, the state-run health plan that covers more than 6 million lower-income and disabled New Yorkers. As revealed last month,…
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Time to reset the Doomsday Clock of ‘late capitalism’
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS The famous Doomsday Clock — it’s a key visual motif in the Watchmen graphic novel and television miniseries — was created by Manhattan Project scientists as a metaphor to suggest how close mankind…
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Cuomo is AWOL on the State’s $6 billion budget deficit
BY E.J. McMAHON The Cuomo administration has admitted there is a “structural imbalance” in its massive Medicaid budget, which means the Empire State’s biggest single government program is spending beyond its means.…
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DOBBINS: Is NATO brain dead?
BY JAMES DOBBINS French President Emmanuel Macron recently declared that “we are experiencing the brain death of NATO.” He made this remark in support of longstanding French policy favoring a more united Europe…
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North Korea holds most of the cards in negotiations with the United States
BY SOO W. KIM This year, North Korea has been reminding the United States that the window of opportunity for negotiating a nuclear deal is slowly drawing to a close. In a…
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Can anything stop the flow of Russian weapons into Libya?
BY NATHAN VEST Amid intense clashes around southern Tripoli, Libya’s capital has become a proving ground for foreign military equipment. In flagrant violation of the U.N. arms embargo on Libya and with…
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Trump prioritizes Mexican partnership, even though the nation’s top cop was on a cartel’s payroll
President Donald Trump picked a horrible time to postpone designating Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO), a misguided decision made at the request of the divisive leader of a country…
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Billions for social justice college courses: “Queer Arabs in the U.S,” “Power, Racism and Africana Liberation,” etc…
American taxpayers spend billions of dollars to fund a growing number of mandatory social justice courses, degrees and certificates as well as events at public universities nationwide, according to a study that documents the…
