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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...

Biden’s xenophobic gaffe

Another day, another clean up on aisle old man Biden. This time, President Joe Biden was caught telling donors in Washington, D.C., that the reason the economies of China, Japan, Russia, and India are “stalling” is that they are all “xenophobic.” When asked by reporters what Biden meant when he called India and Japan, both […]

The anti-Israel agitators were actually outsiders – and the schools could not have handled it worse

For many Americans, the words “outside agitators” evoke memories of southern segregationists complaining about northern civil rights workers organizing black Americans.

New privacy laws may hurt small businesses most

As the saying goes: buyer beware.

Make parents pay for kids who miss school to curb chronic school absenteeism

In New York City, a stunning four in 10 students — some 353,000 — were chronically absent, for the last full school year (2021-22). The...

Good news for Hochul and Adams: More New Yorkers are working than ever

Good news for Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams as new data reveals that more New Yorkers are working than ever.

Why Meghan Markle is no Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

The Duchess of Sussex wanted to be like the famed and fated Kennedy daughter-in-law; she wound up like a Kardashian insead.

Is it ‘creepy’ or ‘eugenics’ to admit that babies are good?

It’s not every day I get called creepy and am lumped in with eugenicists by a journalism professor. But also, it’s weirdly common for liberals in the media to level such charges at those of us who care about family formation. Having children is good, both for people who have children and for the people […]

The limits of the International Criminal Court and more: Letters to the Editor — May 5, 2024

The International Criminal Court lacks jurisdiction in Israel.

Now NO ONE truly really runs New York City’s public school system

CUNY Graduate Center Prof. David Bloomfield described the plan as a “putrid kettle of fish cooked up by the Legislature.”

West Virginia girls stand up against trans sports madness — they’re braver than the president

The trans sport madness continues, steamrolling even little kids in its path. 

Congress advances censorship under the guise of fighting antisemitism

Did Congress just ban the Bible? No, despite the many hyperbolic claims floating around on social media after the House passed the so-called “Antisemitism Awareness Act” on Wednesday. But free speech watchdogs are nonetheless decrying the legislation for what it actually does — and rightly so.  The well-intentioned legislation is responding to a disturbing uptick […]

Biden lets public health go up in smoke

Leftists demand that others “follow the science,” but when science and the facts reinforce arguments against their politics, they ignore it. That’s what President Joe Biden is doing with marijuana. He is dangerously sacrificing the facts on the ideological altar of pot pandering.  The Drug Enforcement Administration, responding to Biden‘s signals, announced on April 30 that it would reclassify marijuana from a […]

Biden’s pathetic nods to Pelosi, Gore and Kerry

Past presidents have made some pretty dubious picks for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but Joe Biden just outdid them all by tapping Nancy...

The ‘inclusive scholarship’ fraud, anti-squatting law falls short and other commentary

Some state lawmakers “took a victory lap” over a new law “addressing a rash of illegal squatting” in New York that “distinguishes squatters from...

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