Tucked into the 1,547-page continuing budget resolution now before Congress is a section that saves the State Department's Global Engagement Center, a key government...
Some of the most effective tools for addressing the challenge of hostile and unidentified drones may come from Israel, which has honed cutting-edge advances...
The U.S. mental health crisis is real. However, so is our opportunity to meet it. As Congress races to fund the government ahead of the holidays, it is imperative that it does not forget our nation’s youth. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that 40% of high school students reported persistently […]
Could America’s Constitution be on the cusp of a massive rewrite? A recent article said that Democrats fear Republicans at the state and national levels will try to do so after President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. These worries are greatly overblown. However, they do point toward a constitutional mechanism that some well-meaning Americans […]
Mayor Adams and schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos sound confident that the city Panel for Education Policy will OK the contract for an admissions test...
Who’d a-thunk it? The Assad regime collapses in Syria after 54 years. Vladimir Putin’s hold on power seems undermined by imperial overstretch, and the mullahs of Iran have been unable to defend their skies and their leaders’ hotel rooms from Israeli attack. Leaders of the two largest nations of continental Europe have been repudiated. Germany’s […]
Even before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump is either, depending on your perspective, projecting power or spreading chaos beyond America’s borders. As I write, the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, is hanging on by a thread following the resignation of his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland. The problem? Trump’s threat of a 25% tariff on […]
NCAA President Charlie Baker apparently thinks that female athletes are more of a burden to college sports than they are equal members who deserve respect from the top governing body. Baker faced a Senate hearing where he had hoped to talk about restrictions on gambling on college athletes, though anyone could have predicted that the […]
A plurality of young Americans now openly support terrorism. Yes, seriously. This sounds like right-wing alarmism or hyperbole, but it’s just reality, as revealed by a disturbing new poll. For context, popular internet personalities responded to the cold-blooded murder of a healthcare CEO by celebrating and even sexualizing the alleged killer, Luigi Mangione. But observers […]
The government seems either unwilling or incapable of resolving rapidly growing public concern over the wave of aerial drone sightings that have afflicted New Jersey in recent weeks. But New Jersey is only a fraction of the full story. From Virginia to Colorado to Maryland to Oregon, credible reports of unexplained aerial drone activity keep […]
