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Black History Month revival

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...

Democracy lost

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...

Freewheeling and the people's business

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...

Post-factual

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...

Agony as political Bitcoin

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...

Stay/Go/Yes/No?

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...

Our laws need to grow up

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...

From the red carpet to the green mile

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...

Tyranny, equity and blueberry pastry

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...

Jessica Tisch is taking on the dirty work

Desperate times call for desperate measures.  Mayor Eric Adams’ recent appointment of Jessica Tisch as police commissioner is reminiscent of another troubled New York City mayor’s gambit to save his political career. In December 1928, Mayor...

A broad coalition can beat back right-wing demagoguery

Local Republicans are still giddy about the results of Nov. 5, continuing to call it a decisive rejection of progressive and “woke” politics. Writing in the New York Post a few days after the election, Republican City Council Member Vickie...

Cosmic justice

The Constitution confers upon presidents the absolute power and unmitigated authority to pardon anybody whatsoever, for anything in past, present and future time, even if the individual committed crimes with the commander-in-chief's prior...

Amid growing calls for President Joe Biden to cancel all student debt, the administration announced last week that it would be abandoning the plan, ditching it just a few weeks after Jeff Zients, the White House chief of staff, outlined...

Broken axles and unvarnished truth

I was almost killed a few days ago.  Had I been, this column would have been ghost-written.    Not even a pothole could break my spirit, but it did my car axle.  Hardly a departure from the norm in our town.  My...

Grief and grins

A broad daylight execution-style street murder in front of a major hotel in a busy, high-end part of town would normally be a story with guaranteed shock value that would dependably evoke sympathy for almost any random or targeted victim. But...

Back at the NYPD, Tisch joins a select group

Earlier this month, Jessica Tisch accomplished something few before her have done. She returned to the NYPD as commissioner after having previously left the department years ago. The first to do so was Frederick Bugher in 1918.  He had...

Pray amid the spirit not the law

Government must respect and adhere to our constitutional right of religious freedom and stay out of the prayer lives of Americans. Yet “bringing back prayer to our schools” is priority #5 on the incoming president’s to-do list.   But...

Psychic codpieces

Many scientific advances were accidental discoveries that were not the original goal of research. Teflon, X-rays, microwaves and insulin are among them.  Like Columbus, who is lauded for landing in America though he was looking for India, we...

Labor pains and pleasures

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...

Can the Democratic Party build a micro-level politics?

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...

DCAS leans into retaining city employees

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...

Billionaires’ nickel and diming

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...

Cleared for takeoff

"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...

Running on empty

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...

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