To the editor: When recent polls showed President Trump's approval rating dropping to 38 percent, this was hardly comforting. ICE's treatment of migrants alone should be enough to end any humane person's support of Trump. But then so should have...
To the editor: Ron Isaac's May 22 column has the appropriate headline, "Blinded justice." In his excellent essay is an example of a judge who gave only a nine-month sentence to a man who beat a homeless man to death. ...
To the editor: As reported in The Chief, Mario Cilento, president of the New York State AFL-CIO, lauded the Tier 6 pension reforms negotiated with Governor Kathy Hochul and other state labor officials and political leaders. Cilento stated that...
To the editor: The Tax Deferred Annuity plan (TDA) is administered by Teachers’ Retirement System of the City of New York. Through voluntary salary reductions, TDA participants contribute to this supplemental savings program and then the...
To the editor: This year, 743 FDNY Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), paramedics, and EMS officers are applauded in the FDNY Medal Day Book. They re-started hundreds of New Yorkers' hearts that had suddenly...
To the editor: Machiavellian former FBI director James Comey was indicted for posting “86 47.” The DOJ is also investigating E. Jean Carroll for lying under oath about the financial backing for her lawsuit against Donald Trump. Is the DOJ...
To the editor: President Trump has taken the reins of power not only in the United States, but across the world. Recently he said, “I could run for President in Israel.” He also said about the proposed Arc de Trump, “We don’t need anything from...
To the editor: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a successful comedian who became a respected and successful politician. President Donald Trump is a failed and reprehensible politician who often pretends to be a comedian but is an...
To the editor: The New York State budget for Fiscal Year 2027 contains too little good news for New York City retirees.
To the editor: In response to your claims that you don't know anything about the circumstances that led to Norman Seabrook's criminal conviction, my answer to you...
To the editor: Howard Husock of the American Enterprise Institute claims to know the cause of hazardous conditions in affordable, rent stabilized apartments. He says landlords cannot afford to make repairs on apartments who's rents are...
To the editor: The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has transformed from a marginalized group of aging Marxists and idealistic campus activists into a significant force within the Democratic Party. DSA’s support for higher taxes, stronger...
To the editor: A Times/Siena survey found that only 26 percent of voters were satisfied with the Democratic Party, while 33 percent were satisfied with the Republican Party. Approximately 85 percent of dissatisfied voters opposed military...
To the editor: After having gone to Delaney Hall, an immigration detention center in New Jersey, on Sunday, I see that the press is focusing more on the violence taking place late at night while so many are showing up all day and into the evening...
Monarchy has always been symbolized by luxury in the national government administrative office. Donald has turned the White House into a palace. Billionaires have become invested with public authority like hereditary peers. Our new royalist...
To the editor: Nassau Country Executive Bruce Blakeman, who is a MAGA supporter and a Trump follower, is currently campaigning to be the next Governor for New York State. Meanwhile former disgraced president of the Correction Officers'...
To the editor: I recently received a surprise in the mail. New York-Presbyterian Hospital is a non-profit that apparently considers itself a charity. They were asking me to make a contribution. According to ProPublica's...
To the editor: Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, calls healthcare a "broken system” that has created “a plague of medical debt.” She recently wrote that the AFT is fighting back “through organizing, contract negotiations,...
To the editor: It was good to hear that the NYPD cooperated with their law enforcement brothers at Wyckoff Hospital while bringing in a prisoner and keeping protesters in check. And I commend NYPD Commissioner Tisch and the mayor for standing...
To the editor: In the three months since the U.S. and Israel launched the war on Iran that led to the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top Iranian officials, Iran has insisted that any agreement lead to ending the fighting on all fronts...
To the editor: An old adage warns that “crime doesn’t pay." Like most norms Donald Trump has dismantled, that axiom has been stood on its head. On May 18, the Justice Department announced a settlement agreement with Trump, his sons...
To the editor: MAGA Republican leaders today no longer can spell words like “morality,” “ethics,” “social acceptability,” “good faith,” “wisdom,” “knowledge,” “republican government" and “love of neighbor.” Today Republicans will not move a...
To the editor: The New York Public Library and the District Council 37/ The New York Public Library Health & Security Plan Trust have been paying all Medicare Part B eligible retirees 80 percent of our contribution, not 100 percent. The Trust...
To the editor: They say it will get much worse before it gets a little better. They also say without struggle there can be no progress. And the struggle must go on. Together, we wrote an EMS Bill of Rights to remind you that what we do as a national service has...
To the editor: On May 7, the New York Amsterdam News reported that newly appointed “Close Rikers Czar” Dana Kaplan stated “My job is to move heaven and earth to close Rikers Island as quickly as possible." And advocates assert, “It is essential to have a person...