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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
