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Trump gets a bond break while working families pay the price
As the former president faced losing his properties, an eleventh-hour decision by a state appellate court saved him. What were they thinking?
The conservative expansion into NYC’s liberal bastion
The Moms for Liberty organization — a coalition of right-wing education activists that won significant political power and subsequently began to splinter, all at lightning speed — launched its first NYC chapter in Queens late last year. Months later, Bruce Blakeman, county executive of neighboring Nassau County in Long Island, issued an executive order barring…
Mayor Adams calls for more changes to NYC’s sanctuary laws
Last week, Mayor Eric Adams signaled a disagreement with NYC’s long-standing sanctuary laws suggesting that the city should much more openly cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This comes amid a generalized and heavily politicized migrant crime panic, despite data showing that immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than the native-born, fed by incidents…
The chemical attack at Columbia University nobody is talking about
Just under two weeks ago, a couple of NYPD officers were beaten by a group of people in Times Square that were alleged to be migrants. I say so as a reminder, because you’ve probably already heard about it — it’s been front page news practically every day since then. To summarize, an officer apparently…
The complicated truth about New York’s shoplifting “crisis”
Why we’re seeing more police at chain stores, and what the ethical implications are. Tucked in Governor Kathy Hochul’s preliminary budget announcement last week,— among much-anticipated items like $2.4 billion in asylum seeker funding and plans for education and housing, was $40.2 million to “address retail theft” —an item so prominent it got its own…
What to look for — and be wary of —this upcoming election season
When we talk about this year’s elections, what we’re most obviously talking about is the election, the 2024 presidential election that will, in all likelihood and to what seems like a significant share of the country’s annoyance, pit President Joe Biden against predecessor Donald Trump once again. I don’t have much to say here beyond…
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