New Yorkers who care about crime, the mentally ill and protecting taxpayer funds should watch Thursday’s debate between Attorney General Letitia James and challenger...
2006—New York Times public editor Byron Calame criticizes Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse for violating the paper’s ethical guidelines by asserting, in a speech at Radcliffe, that...
The State Department stubbornly clings to a phantom diplomacy, recognizing a corrupt, Islamist faction in Tripoli as Libya’s sole government. Yet, the physical map dismantles this Washington fantasy. In reality, Benghazi-based Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army controls 70% of the country, holds the vital Sirte Basin, and secures the oil terminals that keep […]
The recent United Nations General Assembly once again gave world leaders a stage to criticize President Donald Trump and American foreign policy. Iran’s president attacked Trump while portraying his own country as a victim of terrorism. French President Emmanuel Macron warned of a “new age of barbarism.” Other American allies used the gathering to distance […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s statement on the third anniversary of Oct. 7, 2023, begins reasonably enough. He calls the Hamas attack “horrific war crimes,” recalls the more than 1,100 Israelis who were killed and the 251 people abducted into Gaza, and offers sympathy to New Yorkers who continue to carry the trauma of […]
On the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, I woke up late and checked the news. My feed runs in three languages, English, Arabic, and French, so I usually see the same event through very different lenses. That morning, every lens showed horror. The images were unbearable, and the videos sent a chill through me. I […]