It could have been worse. But if we want so hard to believe good news that we rush to judgment, let that judgment at least be tentative, pending earned permanency. The widespread fear that President-elect Trump's secretary of labor would be an...
In the three weeks since the election, Democrats and progressives have been analyzing what went wrong for Harris' campaign. A significant part of this postmortem centers on the issue of dealignment — the erosion of Democratic support among...
New York City government, like every industry in the nation, suffered dramatic employee vacancies during and in the immediate aftermath of the Covid pandemic. Aside from the devastating loss of highly valued municipal workers to the disease...
These guys mean business. Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, as co-chiefs of the new Department of Government Efficiency, have been deputized to destroy the livelihoods of millions of productive federal government employees in order to eviscerate the...
"Peanut" was the name of a healthy and tame pet squirrel that was recently seized from its owner in a government-ordered raid and euthanized for no reason. Unless perhaps the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation mistook the...
At the New York City marathon, NYPD Commissioner Thomas Donlon and his chief of staff, Tarik Sheppard, who is also the department’s deputy commissioner of public information, got into an embarrassing shouting match while posing for a photograph...
In the end, the election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair over the loss of 30 million jobs in mass layoffs. Despair over austerity programs …
When retirees talk about the "Big Lie," they are referring to the ruse that the city forcing retirees off traditional Medicare and into Medicare Advantage will save money. It has been repeated so …
We all remember this feral kid. I'll call him Tom. Teachers who had him in their class decades ago still wake up with clammy hands and palpitations. He raised hell in school and always got his way, …
A cortege of senior officials exited the Adams administration in a flash. They all want to spend more time with their families. This yearning for domesticity and familial bonding tends to dovetail …
While Kamala Harris must, if elected, ensure the rights of organized labor, the Supreme Court’s influence on labor rights may be equally significant, if not more so. Since the election of Donald …
William Shakespeare wrote, “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.” Hence, will Americans elect the voice of reason or the voice of treason for president in 2024? And if …
I'd left my utility jar at home and was already late picking up my friend's first-grader grandson to drive him to school. So, when I had to respond to nature's impudent call and the nearest place to …
The Adams administration can be aptly described by the oft quoted phrase from the famous poem by Robert Burns, “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” Adams came into office with …
Leonard Riggio, who transformed Barnes & Noble from its single location on Fifth Avenue into the nation’s largest bookseller, died on Aug. 27, 2024. The obits lionized him for revolutionizing …
The trial of Daniel Penny begins soon. Two years have passed since the Marine Corps veteran choked Jordan Neely to death on a subway train. Motive of action and degree of intention are yet to be …
While the National Labor Relations Board gained strength under President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris' election would not guarantee its continued support for organized labor. Upon taking …
As we approach election day, the stakes couldn’t be higher. The MAGA-Republican challenges to the legitimacy of the 2020 elections, January 6 insurrection and the democracy-dismantling revelations …
In judging matters of grave importance with irreversible suffering in case of error, all evidence must be knowledge-based, and nothing can be known until it is known for certain. Even a laggard …
The City University of New York is among the most essential institutions in New York City. The school’s 25 campuses and quarter-million students reflect the diversity, resilience, strength and …
If you saw The Twilight Zone episode entitled “To Serve Man,” I remind you to take heed and “don’t get on that ship” with Donald Trump. In this episode, which originally aired in 1962, the …
The strike by the International Longshoremen's Association looms like Armageddon's mushroom cloud. Let's clear the air. Harold J. Daggett Jr., the union's president, is in the pole position to make …
Corruption amongst city officials in New York City is nothing new, but never have the probes into malfeasance by appointed city officials been so widespread as today. Even before the five boroughs …
My first thought was that Boeing had taken over Walgreens, because if you hold their paper bag as though it were a newborn baby, it still splits open like a watermelon hit by an assault rifle. Even …
One of New York City’s long-standing inequities has reached a sickening point: Full-time medical first responders are so underpaid that many now qualify for food stamps and Section 8 housing …
