New York won't come close to its "mandatory" goal of slashing gas emissions by 40% by 2030, let alone achieving 100% zero-carbon-emission electricity by...
Hochul’s choice to bury this fight within Albany’s secret budget negotiations deprives New Yorkers of open debate — and could let criminals continue to...
THE ANNUAL WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER FIASCO. Over the weekend, the White House Correspondents’ Association abruptly canceled the performance of comedian Amber Ruffin, originally scheduled for the organization’s April 26 annual dinner. Once a celebrity-filled pageant of Washington journalists and politicians, the dinner has struggled to find equilibrium and meaning since the first election of President […]
The Trump administration announced earlier this month that it would revoke $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University, punishing the school for allegedly allowing antisemitism to flourish on campus and failing to protect Jewish students. The administration sent a letter to the university’s interim president outlining actions the university must take “as […]
SANTA MONICA, California — One of the last times I was in California was a couple of weeks before then-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom won the governor’s race. It was late 2018, and COVID-19 was 16 months away. So were the riots that accompanied the death of George Floyd, homeless camps, and the decline of California’s […]
There are tentative indications that President Donald Trump might finally be waking up to Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s attempts to manipulate him. Speaking to NBC News on Sunday, Trump said he was “very angry, pissed off” over Putin’s questioning of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky‘s authority as a leader. This rhetorical shift might be notable. Until […]
