WASHINGTON — First, he married a Kennedy. Then he behaved like one. Like his idol Invoice Clinton — he nonetheless cherishes the cigar humidor Clinton gave him — Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn’t appear to understand times had modified. Again in 1998, when the story broke in regards to the affair […]
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The city’s district attorneys say they’ll prosecute spitting on transit workers, however not smoking weed or urinating within the subway — which exhibits how clueless the prosecutors are about what makes it harmful underground. The DAs had been displaying assist for a state invoice to make saliva-assaults simpler to prosecute. […]
When public policies have produced disastrous results, and when different policies have resulted in quick, seemingly miraculous enchancment, why would anybody need to return to the sooner policies? The sooner policies — a pullback from active policing and sure punishment, an open-handed welfare system providing earnings for single moms — […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo now stands uncovered as a liar and a fraud: For months, he claimed that New York was doing much better in opposition to the virus than other states when it got here to nursing-home death rates — at the same time as he had his staff suppressing […]
COVID-19 has hit our already burdened healthcare workforce like a sledgehammer. More than a 12 months into the pandemic, a direct, full-scale effort to assist healthcare workers and help them keep within the workforce is important if the U.S. healthcare system is to outlive. Earlier than the onset of COVID-19, […]
EBay permits people to promote Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf on its website, in addition to the infamously false and anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Peter Pan, laden with stereotypes about Native Americans, is for sale there, together with the many books of the Little House on the Prairie […]
It’s despicable, sure, and horrifying. However is anyone actually stunned that pandemic profiteers have been making an attempt to make a buck by selling the 1.7 million counterfeit N95 masks lately seized by authorities in a Queens, N.Y., warehouse? The rip-off was significantly reprehensible because the masks have been headed […]
To the editor: Rising up, I bear in mind white youngsters following me and chanting “ching chong” and “jap jap” whereas making slanty-eyed gestures. Effectively into my teenagers, I would stroll right into a restaurant with my family and we’d be refused service. (“My low-level anxiety about being Asian in […]
In America, class warfare is commonly disguised as culture war, and culture war is commonly cloaked by discuss of race. However beneath all of it, the class warfare continues to be there. Whether or not by chance or deliberately, America’s upper classes appear to wind up harming the working class and […]
A disaster is a horrible thing to create. This, nonetheless, is what President Biden has done on the southern border. His rhetoric throughout the marketing campaign suggesting an open-handed method to migrants coming to the US, and his early strikes to undo Donald Trump’s border policies, are making a migrant […]
