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The onetime movie producer and prolific sexual predator Harvey Weinstein’s New York convictions for assaults on two women were overturned last week...
United States drug policy this week moved one step closer to sanity. It’s got much further to go. We are not cannabis enthusiasts, nor do we love...
There is no artificial intelligence without the vast trove of human knowledge. Today’s generative AI applications were built on a foundation of such...
Tuesday night, the world watched on live TV as the NYPD cleared out pro-Palestinian student protesters who’d taken over Columbia University’s...
Acting Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan held Donald Trump in contempt for his violations of a gag order in his criminal hush money...
As an op-ed being published nearly today points out, May 1 marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Month. And this May 1 also marks one year since...
Going 55 in a 35 zone was only the first of Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley’s mistakes last Monday. That in itself would have been a...
Decades ago someone asked why this Editorial Board “cares so much about the courts, it’s not the New York Law Journal?” We cared then and we...
A year ago, to her credit, Gov. Hochul tried to have New York ban menthol flavored cigarettes, which cause disproportionate sickness and death in the...
Wednesday, May 1, is the usual date when high school seniors have to decide what college they will attend. But for far too many kids and their...
On university campuses across America, students are getting a hands-on lesson in speech repression as their administrators respond to their...
The man formerly known as the mayor who saved New York City from an epidemic of murder and violent crime, who once upon a time Oprah Winfrey dubbed...
This past week, the state of Idaho argued before the Supreme Court that it should be allowed to violate federal law. Specifically, the state...
Yesterday, the American public witnessed — or heard, rather, given the Supreme Court’s stubborn refusal to allow cameras in its courtroom — a...
As of yesterday, under New York State law, the imprisoned rapist Harvey Weinstein serving a 23-year sentence in upstate’s Mohawk Correctional...
In a narrow vote this week, the Federal Trade Commission approved a rule that will ban the vast majority of noncompete clauses by U.S. employers,...
It is embarrassing to have to type this sentence, but type it we will: If and when there are no shelter beds available, it is unacceptable for a city...
Albany legislators and Gov. Hochul are calling victory on the housing provisions painstakingly negotiated in the budget, which include much of what...
Monday, with all classes being held remote, the environs of Columbia University were anything but quiet. On the South Lawn in front of Butler Library...
It took a while and many editorials in this space, including four this month, but our constant hammering on the absolute vital need to make freely...
Tucked in one of the state’s late budget bills is the culmination of years of safe-streets advocacy in the form of Sammy’s Law, which will permit...
Absent a last minute plea deal between Defendant Donald Trump and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg or a pardon from Gov. Hochul (that will not...
Louisianan Mike Johnson became House speaker by accident, when eight renegade Republicans voted with the Democrats to eject the unfortunate Kevin...
Shortly after Acting Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan gaveled out the final day of jury selection for the criminal prosecution of...
The woman and the girl who, days apart, were punched by a maniac in Grand Central Terminal. The women who were punched at random on the...
In picking the final set of nameless jurors for Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, Acting Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan...
This week, more than 100 Columbia University students were suspended from school and then arrested after erecting an encampment on a campus lawn to,...
With the passage of one of Albany’s budget bills yesterday, the NYPD and other local law enforcement have finally been given the authority to...
In an unusual joint statement this week, the Republican governors of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Tennessee assailed the...
The 49 Senate Republicans spent yesterday afternoon furiously sputtering that they weren’t allowed to debate if Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of...
In 2022, at the University of Southern California commencement, valedictorian Adam Karelin delivered a stirring poem against Russia’s invasion...
Only Jean Carlos Zarzuela is criminally culpable for allegedly sucker-punching a 9-year-old girl in the face in Grand Central Terminal on...
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik lucked out (or perhaps pulled a wise move) in being unavailable for the infamous antisemitism hearing...
Five years after Police Officer Brendan Thompson, flanked by partner Herbert Davis, shot and killed Kawaski Trawick in his Bronx home, the NYPD has...
Operation True Promise, Iran’s missile and drone attack on Israel, a blatant act of war and the first-ever direct assault by Tehran on the Jewish...
It was 20 years ago exactly on this date, April 15, 2004, Tax Day. President George W. Bush and his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, had both...
Last week, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds followed the lead of Texas counterpart and grandstander extraordinaire Greg Abbott in signing a bill that would make...
Of course Donald Trump got it wrong in commanding his cultish House Freedom Caucus followers to vote against continuing the Foreign Intelligence...
Following months of public conversations, Mayor Adams Thursday released the draft of one of the three planks of his City of Yes plan, dealing with...
It’s basic common sense supported by more than 90% of Americans and wholly consistent with the Second Amendment: Anyone buying a firearm needs a...
Manhattan’s Community Board 5 has tabled a vote that would have prevented lobbyists, board or staff members at advocacy groups and political...
Whatever the motivation of City Hall’s new directive that every elected official who wants to connect with an agency commissioner or senior staffer...
O.J. Simpson’s death yesterday reminds us that the 134 days of wall-to-wall TV coverage of his 1995 criminal trial allowed Americans to see every...
After an ignominious year as the city’s foremost migrant services provider, the Adams administration is parting ways with DocGo and its wasteful...
Donald Trump had really lousy timing to announce Monday that he wanted to return abortion policy back to the states as it was before Roe v. Wade and...
The latest effort by the City Council to micromanage the food delivery industry is off-base. Councilmember Shaun Abreu is introducing measures that...
It was due to come out last year, but didn’t show up until this week. We are talking about the release of the state Education Department report on...
In a video address yesterday, former President Donald Trump reiterated the reality that states are currently in charge of determining abortion...
It was a busy day in the Manhattan courts yesterday as lawyers for criminal Defendant Donald Trump (he’s also a former president and the soon-to-be...
Everyone knows it’s dirty pool to try to change the rules once the game has started, but such blatant unfairness isn’t deterring a bunch of Albany...