It could have cost my waiter his job. But he kept his eye on the prize of his means of subsistence and held his tongue during management's reprimand for his forgetting to charge me an extra couple of bucks for a two-inch blueberry pastry...
Why are some individuals smitten with murderers like Ted Bundy and Jodi Arias? And why are killers like Bonnie and Clyde thought of as folk heroes? Hybristophilia is a disorder where a person is attracted to others because of their crimes or...
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Mayor Eric Adams’ recent appointment of Jessica Tisch as police commissioner is reminiscent of another troubled New York City mayor’s gambit to save his political career. In December 1928, Mayor...
Local Republicans are still giddy about the results of Nov. 5, continuing to call it a decisive rejection of progressive and “woke” politics. Writing in the New York Post a few days after the election, Republican City Council Member Vickie...
The Constitution confers upon presidents the absolute power and unmitigated authority to pardon anybody whatsoever, for anything in past, present and future time, even if the individual committed crimes with the commander-in-chief's prior...
Amid growing calls for President Joe Biden to cancel all student debt, the administration announced last week that it would be abandoning the plan, ditching it just a few weeks after Jeff Zients, the White House chief of staff, outlined...
I was almost killed a few days ago. Had I been, this column would have been ghost-written. Not even a pothole could break my spirit, but it did my car axle. Hardly a departure from the norm in our town. My...
A broad daylight execution-style street murder in front of a major hotel in a busy, high-end part of town would normally be a story with guaranteed shock value that would dependably evoke sympathy for almost any random or targeted victim. But...
Earlier this month, Jessica Tisch accomplished something few before her have done. She returned to the NYPD as commissioner after having previously left the department years ago. The first to do so was Frederick Bugher in 1918. He had...
Government must respect and adhere to our constitutional right of religious freedom and stay out of the prayer lives of Americans. Yet “bringing back prayer to our schools” is priority #5 on the incoming president’s to-do list. But...
Many scientific advances were accidental discoveries that were not the original goal of research. Teflon, X-rays, microwaves and insulin are among them. Like Columbus, who is lauded for landing in America though he was looking for India, we...
It could have been worse. But if we want so hard to believe good news that we rush to judgment, let that judgment at least be tentative, pending earned permanency. The widespread fear that President-elect Trump's secretary of labor would be an...
In the three weeks since the election, Democrats and progressives have been analyzing what went wrong for Harris' campaign. A significant part of this postmortem centers on the issue of dealignment — the erosion of Democratic support among...
New York City government, like every industry in the nation, suffered dramatic employee vacancies during and in the immediate aftermath of the Covid pandemic. Aside from the devastating loss of highly valued municipal workers to the disease...
These guys mean business. Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, as co-chiefs of the new Department of Government Efficiency, have been deputized to destroy the livelihoods of millions of productive federal government employees in order to eviscerate the...
"Peanut" was the name of a healthy and tame pet squirrel that was recently seized from its owner in a government-ordered raid and euthanized for no reason. Unless perhaps the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation mistook the...
At the New York City marathon, NYPD Commissioner Thomas Donlon and his chief of staff, Tarik Sheppard, who is also the department’s deputy commissioner of public information, got into an embarrassing shouting match while posing for a photograph...
In the end, the election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair over the loss of 30 million jobs in mass layoffs. Despair over austerity programs …
When retirees talk about the "Big Lie," they are referring to the ruse that the city forcing retirees off traditional Medicare and into Medicare Advantage will save money. It has been repeated so …
We all remember this feral kid. I'll call him Tom. Teachers who had him in their class decades ago still wake up with clammy hands and palpitations. He raised hell in school and always got his way, …
A cortege of senior officials exited the Adams administration in a flash. They all want to spend more time with their families. This yearning for domesticity and familial bonding tends to dovetail …
While Kamala Harris must, if elected, ensure the rights of organized labor, the Supreme Court’s influence on labor rights may be equally significant, if not more so. Since the election of Donald …
William Shakespeare wrote, “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.” Hence, will Americans elect the voice of reason or the voice of treason for president in 2024? And if …
I'd left my utility jar at home and was already late picking up my friend's first-grader grandson to drive him to school. So, when I had to respond to nature's impudent call and the nearest place to …
The Adams administration can be aptly described by the oft quoted phrase from the famous poem by Robert Burns, “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” Adams came into office with …
