Attorney General Letitia James runs the state's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which is charged with prosecuting those who rip off the taxpayer-funded program.
Thirty years ago, Congress decided that parents deserved a way to monitor what the entertainment industry was beaming into their homes. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 recognized that children are influenced by what they see on television and that the entertainment industry has a role to play in helping parents navigate their children’s media consumption. […]
When George Orwell published Animal Farm, his biting critique of the Russian Revolution and the totalitarian communist regime that followed, in 1945, the novel was denounced as anti-communist propaganda and immediately banned in the Soviet Union. Director Andy Serkis, who appears to share at least some of the Soviets’ aversion to political mockery and rebuke […]
For generations of American families, railroading has been more than a job; it has been a way of life. Parents passed down careers to their children. Communities grew around rail hubs. Entire family trees were built on the promise that hard work on the railroad could create opportunity and stability for the next generation. That […]
The deaths from a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship have set off an international scramble over the past month to trace hundreds of passengers. But the question we should be asking is not whether the hantavirus outbreak becomes the next pandemic. It is whether hospitals could be better prepared than they were in 2020 […]
The United States has indicted Raul Castro for his role in shooting down planes flown by emigres in 1996. The decision to indict the aging Cuban dictator is morally right and strategically sound. It is another welcome move in the Trump administration’s campaign to reassert American power, especially in the Western Hemisphere. The Department of […]
There is a certain kind of politician who has learned that saying something loudly and confidently is a perfectly adequate substitute for saying something...
