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Karen Bass is just too busy to answer for her record on homelessness

It’s like the would-be date who declines, citing a need to wash her hair. Karen Bass has told a powerful congressional panel that she can’t testify next week about...

JD Vance: Neoconservative

What the vice president is doing is changing how the money is spent to...

The truth about Rikers’ deaths and Mamdani’s reckless agenda

Last month Mayor Mamdani conveyed his condolences, and that of the city, to the...

Democrats’ faux affordability agenda will cost Americans big time

Americans' continued exasperation with the cost of living crisis is no hoax, but Democrats'...

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer bashed America’s juries — and battered another pillar of justice

If jurors aren’t allowed to stick to their own opinions, juries can’t work. Lindsay Clancy's...

Docs offer glimpse inside Censorship Industrial Complex

Welcome to the Censorship Industrial Complex. It’s rather like the old “military industrial complex,” which was shorthand for the military, private companies, and academia working together to achieve U.S. battlefield dominance, with the R&D funded by the government that buys the final product.

Silence is never the answer when hostages are taken

Word leaked on Monday that Iran had held Johan Floderus, a Swedish diplomat working for the European Union’s foreign service, for more than 500 days. The West kept his detention quiet so as not to disrupt diplomacy. Iran apparently seized Floderus as a chit to trade for Hamid Nouri, an Iranian national held in Sweden for his role in the 1988 massacre of nearly 3,000 prisoners.

Social Security’s pending insolvency should be front and center at next GOP debate

For those Iowans who depend upon Social Security, little should be more worrisome than the GOP’s first debate among its contenders for president.

Democrats sabotage their own housing affordability plans

Like a stopped clock that is right twice a day, the Democratic Party periodically stumbles into a correct public policy.

Biden’s 9/11 snub and more: Letters to the Editor — Sept. 9, 2023

The White House said President Biden will travel to Alaska to mark the somber occasion of 9/11 after his trip to Hanoi, Vietnam, where...

Eric Adams is late to the party with his epiphany about NYC’s ongoing migrant problem

Mayor Eric Adams sounded the alarm this week over the financial strain his city faces as thousands of asylum seekers arrive each month.

Why New York City needs ‘organic’ gentrification

Unlike upscale outer borough nabes like Williamsburg, the Ocean Hill district is gentrifying slowly and with purpose. And this will make it far longer-lasting.

Elementary school teachers must now embrace DEI principles to get hired at many public schools: study

A new study reveals that across the US, public elementary schools are requiring potential hires to embraced DEI principles rather than merely display strong...

After overseeing a record number of homicides in the city, Philly police chief resigns

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw tendered her resignation as the city’s top cop to take a job as the deputy chief security officer of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, various media outlets reported. Outlaw’s last day will be Sept. 22. Outlaw’s tenure began in February 2020, and her departure comes after slightly more than 3.5 years on the job.

Africa’s coup epidemic reveals weakness in Washington

A spate of coups by military leaders across Western and Central Africa — including Gabon — suggests that the US is ceding control in...

How will Birkenstocks fare after its billion-dollar bet to go public?

As a youngster in the 1980s, I eagerly awaited the summer season, when our unglamorous resort town in eastern Greece would be inundated by...

Supreme Court must draw line between journalism and skulduggery in PETA case

An upcoming SCOTUS case has PETA arguing it can trespass and secretly surveil in the name of news. No, no and no.

No excuses: City needs to end rampant school absenteeism

New York needs to end its school absenteeism crisis by any means necessary.

Democrats buckle under Biden border chaos

The decision of Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) to bus immigrants from Texas to New York City is putting a squeeze on President Joe Biden, who refuses to enforce immigration laws. It has made every community in the nation a border community, and Democrats are starting to squeal.

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