Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you, and pigs see you as an equal. Winston Churchill's astute observation, slightly tweaked, describes how people of different ideological breeds view the police. In the polarized miasma of contemporary...
The first sentence of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” is foreboding. It reads, “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” Millions of Americans have been undergoing an ideological lobotomy over the...
I have no plasma screen and all I know about plasma is blood related and my experience with streaming is strictly allergy related. I've attended traditional movie theaters avidly ever since I was uploaded with hormones and found the dark and...
The author is a former 2nd vice president of District Council 37 Local 1549. He was also a member of the Health Care Transition teams of former Governor Elliot Spitzer and Mayor Eric Adams. It is ludicrous for the Trump-Musk government to say...
This week marks the fifth anniversary of the passing of my father, Lenin Fierro — one of the first municipal workers to succumb to complications from Covid. As we commemorate this week, we reflect on his profound impact on our city's safety and...
P.T. Barnum, who said "There's a sucker born every minute,” lived before the population explosion and the present era of warp speed mass gullibility. Today, a sucker is born every nano-second. And all persuasions are equal opportunity suckers for...
Leaking bags of dripping animal blood, receptacles crawling with maggots, goat, sheep and lamb stools, drains clogged with bird droppings and feathers, spoiled, ashen meat by-products hosting larvae and vermin, tortured sentient creatures in...
The eternal truths are always topical, and, if you track current events, the haunting loss of childhood innocence is rich in renewable content. Kids who viewed Sesame Street's debut and befriended Big Bird and Cookie Monster are now queuing for...
Marcella Bencivenni is professor of history at Hostos Community College, where she has been teaching since 2004. Zainab Shakoor is a philosophy and psychology major and a junior at City College of New York. There’s been widespread coverage...
If I had Musk's money, Wilde's wit, Einstein's brain, Mozart's perfect pitch, Patton's battle smarts, Edison's inventiveness, Paul Robeson's talent versatility, the fanatical loyalty of a brainwashed soldier, the thousandfold enhanced memory of...
“We the people” are the first three words of the Preamble to the United States Constitution. Although the Preamble is not law, it does provide insight into the intentions of the Founding Fathers in that when a politician or government official...
Will postal workers soon be as insecure as a Cybertruck's body panel? Whether by chainsaw or sledgehammer, the efficiency ghouls in Washington are already doing violence to labor contracts, making a mockery of the meaning of "legally binding,”...
There may be times when the goat gets the better of the Komodo Dragon, but don't bet on it. Just as precarious a wager is that any given politician will repel the tantalizations of ambition and choose to sacrifice the temptations of personal...
Elias Husamudeen is a criminal justice reform consultant and former president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association. Once again, a major part of the city’s criminal justice system — our jails — is being ignored. This policy shift...
Martin Alan Greenberg is a retired criminal justice professor and past president of the Auxiliary Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York. While the odds of being attacked may be small, the city’s subways feel more unsafe in 2025...
Look out, it's Black History Month! It's because I respect its original purpose that I sound a cautionary alarm. It was conceived to elevate the nation with an awareness of the vast and vital intergenerational contributions of African Americans...
The vulnerability of democracy is that man and woman have the free will to fall. That is the price of freedom and when an individual or group does fall there are built-in guardrails we depend on to prevent autocracy. But in this existential saga...
Will someone please step forward and explain the logic and fairness of members of Congress being allowed to massively enrich themselves and their families by indulging in insider trading when it is strictly forbidden for the rest of us? They...
The Post yet again attacks teachers' unions for opposing cuts in educational services to kids (“How lavish benefits pushed by NY teachers’ unions ramped up school spending…,” Jan. 17). It practically equates their advocacy for children with...
In the days leading up to his inauguration, Donald Trump outlined an ambitious course of action to be implemented immediately upon taking office. Addressing Republican senators, he announced plans to issue 100 executive orders, targeting various...
Last week, shortly before sundown on a frigid day, as I was driving down a major road where almost everyone ignores the posted speed limit, a woman was walking lackadaisically straight down the middle lane as though she were just another car. She...
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement deports convicted felons who committed heinous violent crimes while in this country illegally, let there be neither obstacles nor crass public rejoicing. Their removal is morally imperative, but neither...
Subway crime is not in our heads and never has been. Very few New Yorkers remember Noel Perez, but his brutal murder on the subway nearly 50 years ago made headlines. As the train pulled into the 148th Street station, on March 19, 1978, a...
Why are some individuals smitten with murderers like Ted Bundy and Jodi Arias? And why are killers like Bonnie and Clyde thought of as folk heroes? Hybristophilia is a disorder where a person is attracted to others because of their crimes or...
It could have cost my waiter his job. But he kept his eye on the prize of his means of subsistence and held his tongue during management's reprimand for his forgetting to charge me an extra couple of bucks for a two-inch blueberry pastry...
