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Transit workers keep NYC moving — if you can afford to ride

Why is the subway so expensive? I mean, when we had George Washington as president was when I first took the train, and it was a nickel.

It’s change-or-die time for America’s overpriced, smugly lefty colleges

US colleges face a deadly crisis, with enrollments plummeting and budgets crashing — and...

Fask Takes: Get allies’ aid on missile-making, NY’s no-standards disaster and other commentary

America’s “munitions shortfall” resulted from “shrinking production capacity” and “overly optimistic assumptions about how...

US and Canada brawl over hockey sticks — so China skates off with big trade wins

While Trump and Canada's Mark Carney try to check each other into the boards,...

Soaring tenant complaints are a first step in Mamdani’s road to ruin NYC’s housing market

Getting the city to seize and “socialize” New York’s housing stock is an explicit...

Police apprehend 4 boys spotted subway surfing on NYC train: ‘A deadly risk’

The four boys — two of whom are 12 — are among the 200 people NYPD drones have rescued since the program began, police said Tuesday.

The rescission package is a chance to get serious about cutting spending

I suspect Tom Coburn would remind his colleagues that the “E” in PEPFAR stands for “emergency.”

Musk favorability drops to 23 percent: Survey

Tech billionaire and former Trump administration official Elon Musk’s favorability has fallen to less than 25 percent in a poll released Thursday. Musk only garnered 23 percent favorability in the CNN poll, with his unfavorability at 60 percent. Three percent said they had “never heard of” the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, while 14 percent were...

The president is fueling antisemitism with his attacks on higher education  

As Trump exploits disdain for antisemitism to execute his own personal crusade against higher education, his laser focus on Jewish students and faculty becomes exploitive in and of itself.

Democrats walk out of Bove, Pirro meeting as panel advances controversial Trump nominees

The Senate Judiciary Committee gave its approval to two controversial Trump nominees Thursday, forwarding Emil Bove and Jeanine Pirro over objections from Democrats who walked out of a business meeting after debate was cut short. Bove, one of President Trump's former criminal defense attorneys who is now in the No. 3 spot in the Justice...

Court rules Arkansas can enforce classroom ban on critical race theory

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday to allow Arkansas to enforce a classroom ban on critical race theory. The three-judge panel rejected arguments from students that the state was violating their First Amendment rights by restricting the teaching. “Since the Free Speech Clause does not give the students the right to compel...

Musk fuels clamor for Epstein files

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has continued to fuel public intrigue surrounding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as the federal government faces growing pressure to release additional information from the criminal case against the late financier. Musk first planted the seeds of the latest Epstein controversy during his feud with President Trump last month, when the...

Blanche backs Bove judicial nomination in op-ed

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is zealously backing Emil Bove's nomination to a federal appeals court amid suggestions that his confirmation could undermine the rule of law, saying "nothing could be further from the truth." In a Fox News op-ed published Thursday, Blanche called his former co-counsel on President Trump's Manhattan criminal case "the most...

The Trump administration needs to get its story straight on mercury

This administration claims to care about child toxic exposures on the one hand, but it is working to actually increase toxic pollution on the other.

See inside Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in Illinois

The Village of Dolton recently purchased the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV for $375,000, and is working to obtain landmark status for both the home and the abandoned St. Mary's of Assumption church and school, in an effort to bring tourism and economic growth to the area.

I was once an ICE prosecutor. What I see now in immigration courts is disturbing.

Courtrooms that once served as venues for justice are now used to intimidate and remove those who challenge policy.

Comedian Shane Gillis jabs Trump on Epstein at ESPYs

Comedian Shane Gillis on Wednesday evening poked fun at President Trump over his administration's handling of the files related to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. While hosting the 2025 ESPYs, Gillis first knocked Trump for his role surrounding the Jan. 6. 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. “Donald Trump wants to stage...

Don’t get upset with Mamdani for trying to take advantage of DEI

The 17-year-old Mamdani responded rationally to a system that was openly perverse.

Vladimir Putin’s growing ‘red tide’ in eastern Ukraine

Russian ground advances across eastern Ukraine appear to be small at first glance — only 1.2 square kilometers on an average per day near the city of Kupiansk. Or, as the Institute for the Study of War notes, they have gained a grand total of 454 square kilometers since January 2024 when Moscow first attempted...

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