We've all heard the phrase "elephant in the room" to describe a significant obstacle or problem in plain sight that people choose to pretend they don't see because for one reason or other they're not …
New York’s essential workers are in dire need of a Covid presumptive law to help secure disability pension protections they are being denied. When Covid first struck, and most New Yorkers …
"The next time a cop knocks on your window … tell him who your lawyer is!" That's ballsy advice for someone who may be suspected of driving while intoxicated. No doubt any cop so addressed will …
New York City is in recovery mode. After being the epicenter of a devastating global health pandemic, we have been left to reckon with the fact that we have to reinvent our economy and start on a …
As we all prepare to go back in time to a period when more than half the American population can no longer count on a guarantee of reproductive health as a federal guarantee, it’s past time to tell …
May 25th will be D-Day. Not in the sense of the 1944 invasion that led to the Liberation, but a historic day of reckoning nonetheless. That's when the shareholders of Meta (formerly …
The recent shooting of 13 innocent victims in Buffalo demands reflection and reaction, cries out for mourning, and a search for meaning. Although the racist motive seems abundantly clear, …
Here are some cost-savings measures that efficiency experts, given their respect for workers, might as well have recommended to management for their wish lists: Don't pay firefighters except for time …
“Now you see it, now you don't!" That sleight-of-hand routine has been a staple at children's parties for even longer than the Department of Education has been a nest of false promises. Their latest …
Blinded by what Barbara Tuchman calls “the bellicose frivolity of senile empires,” we are marching ominously towards war with Russia. How else might we explain Secretary of Defense Lloyd …
"We're in deep doo-doo. What the heck is going on?"These are signature "takes" of serial billionaire John Catsimatidis, whose kingdom of entrepreneurial coups suggests a sophistication craftily …
The triumphant Starbucks and Amazon workers unionization votes have thrust New York City into the forefront of leadership in organized labor's national renaissance. Its significance transcends …
To create jobs for educational bureaucrats and help them stay up-to-speed with the latest sensitivity-training nomenclature, it has been found helpful to constantly reclassify children with ingenious …
Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson just wrapped up. And while we will know the outcome in a couple of weeks (a historic nominee will be confirmed), the …
Over the last year, median rent in New York City has climbed more than 22 percent. City housing had already hit an affordability crisis before the pandemic. How the U.S. “managed” the coronavirus …
Just three years ago, while researching a forthcoming book about veterans’ affairs, we attended an impromptu town hall meeting in the lobby of the Manhattan Medical Center of the Department of …
Every now and then, it’s really important to look around corners and analyze things from a different angle. In an opinion piece I wrote the other day praising Ketanji Brown Jackson, I did what …
If you have ever been there, you never really go away. There is no way to leave it behind. The signs ask for silence at this place marked on the map as Colleville-sur-Mer. It’s on a cliff a …
