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Delicate balance: Harvey Weinstein’s conviction and due process for all

The onetime movie producer and prolific sexual predator Harvey Weinstein’s New York convictions for assaults on two women were overturned last week...

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Not a token step on cannabis: Federal downgrading of drug is welcome

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...

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Artificial intelligence not possible without wealth of human knowledge

There is no artificial intelligence without the vast trove of human knowledge. Today’s generative AI applications were built on a foundation of such...

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Protesters, presidents and police: Columbia University gets failing grades

Tuesday night, the world watched on live TV as the NYPD cleared out pro-Palestinian student protesters who’d taken over Columbia University’s...

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Out of chances: Letting Donald Trump skate is contempt for justice

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...

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Help those in need on the subway: The trains are not a mental health clinic

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...

01.05.2024 10

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Speeding over the line: District Attorney Sandra Doorley violated the public’s trust

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...

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A true friend of the court: The N.Y. Court of Appeals takes a welcome step

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...

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N.Y. must ban menthol cigarettes: Washington stalls so Albany must act

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...

30.04.2024 10

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FAFSA mess makes IRS look good: Why can’t the feds get both of them right?

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...

29.04.2024 10

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Not teaching speech: University crackdowns are a cop-out

On university campuses across America, students are getting a hands-on lesson in speech repression as their administrators respond to their...

28.04.2024 10

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Rudy, from lawman to lawbreaker: Giuliani gets indicted, again

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...

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Only one choice on choice: Idaho’s dangerous abortion argument

This past week, the state of Idaho argued before the Supreme Court that it should be allowed to violate federal law. Specifically, the state...

27.04.2024 8

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Immune to logic: Donald Trump’s nonsensical argument before the Supreme Court

Yesterday, the American public witnessed — or heard, rather, given the Supreme Court’s stubborn refusal to allow cameras in its courtroom — a...

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A really bad movie: Harvey Weinstein victory at Court of Appeals is a defeat for justice

As of yesterday, under New York State law, the imprisoned rapist Harvey Weinstein serving a 23-year sentence in upstate’s Mohawk Correctional...

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Let the competition begin: The FTC did its duty banning noncompetes

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,...

26.04.2024 10

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Gimme shelter: Supreme Court should outlaw punishment for the homeless who sleep outside

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...

26.04.2024 9

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Building blocks: Albany housing deal is a good start

Albany legislators and Gov. Hochul are calling victory on the housing provisions painstakingly negotiated in the budget, which include much of what...

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When protest turns to hatred: There’s far too much antisemitism in the free Palestine movement

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...

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The Trump transcripts are now free: Everyone can read every word of the court sessions

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...

24.04.2024 10

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For Sammy: NYC speed limit triumph in state budget

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...

23.04.2024 10

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Judgment day has arrived: Donald Trump on criminal trial

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...

23.04.2024 20

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Tiny speaker stands up: Mike Johnson finally aids Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

Louisianan Mike Johnson became House speaker by accident, when eight renegade Republicans voted with the Democrats to eject the unfortunate Kevin...

22.04.2024 8

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Let all read the Trump transcripts: Justice Juan Merchan must order them published daily

Shortly after Acting Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan gaveled out the final day of jury selection for the criminal prosecution of...

21.04.2024 7

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Real crimes and misdemeanors: New York needs a rethink about ‘minor’ offenses

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...

21.04.2024 10

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Sight unseen: Trump jury needs anonymity to function

In picking the final set of nameless jurors for Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, Acting Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan...

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School fools: Columbia arrests dent free speech

This week, more than 100 Columbia University students were suspended from school and then arrested after erecting an encampment on a campus lawn to,...

21.04.2024 9

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Putting a lid on the pot: Albany bill finally allows quick closures of illegal cannabis shops

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...

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Southern discomfort: Governors should be wary to discourage unionization

In an unusual joint statement this week, the Republican governors of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Tennessee assailed the...

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No debate about it: A fitting end to the ridiculous impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas

The 49 Senate Republicans spent yesterday afternoon furiously sputtering that they weren’t allowed to debate if Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of...

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A commencement speech unspoken: USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum earned the right to speak

In 2022, at the University of Southern California commencement, valedictorian Adam Karelin delivered a stirring poem against Russia’s invasion...

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Failure upon failure turned man loose to slug 9-year-old at Grand Central

Only Jean Carlos Zarzuela is criminally culpable for allegedly sucker-punching a 9-year-old girl in the face in Grand Central Terminal on...

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Hearing without hearing: Columbia president will run the gauntlet at House antisemitism inquiry

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik lucked out (or perhaps pulled a wise move) in being unavailable for the infamous antisemitism hearing...

17.04.2024 10

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Above the law: The shameful end of the Trawick investigation

Five years after Police Officer Brendan Thompson, flanked by partner Herbert Davis, shot and killed Kawaski Trawick in his Bronx home, the NYPD has...

17.04.2024 10

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Iran’s true promise of terror: A dud of an attack that meant to murder

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...

16.04.2024 10

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A long time in coming: Donald Trump, from TV to trial

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...

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Iowa follows Texas folly: Courts must stop state-level immigration enforcement

Last week, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds followed the lead of Texas counterpart and grandstander extraordinaire Greg Abbott in signing a bill that would make...

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Eyes on FISA: Donald Trump’s dangerous buffoonery and the conversation on privacy

Of course Donald Trump got it wrong in commanding his cultish House Freedom Caucus followers to vote against continuing the Foreign Intelligence...

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A home for us: Mayor Adams’ housing plan is a good foundation for NYC

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...

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Biden’s bull’s-eye on gun loophole: Background checks are needed on every weapon sale

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...

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Community hoard: Manhattan board should abandon proposal to limit who can vote

Manhattan’s Community Board 5 has tabled a vote that would have prevented lobbyists, board or staff members at advocacy groups and political...

13.04.2024 5

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Bad form: City Hall should try again on making elected officials submit requests to talk

Whatever the motivation of City Hall’s new directive that every elected official who wants to connect with an agency commissioner or senior staffer...

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Open court, from O.J. to Trump: The hush money trial transcripts must be published

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...

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DocGone: NYC makes the right call dumping DocGo for migrant services

After an ignominious year as the city’s foremost migrant services provider, the Adams administration is parting ways with DocGo and its wasteful...

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Going backward in Arizona: Terrible 1864 abortion ban’s return is the result of Donald Trump

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...

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Tipping should reward good service, not be a hidden up-front fee for delivery workers

The latest effort by the City Council to micromanage the food delivery industry is off-base. Councilmember Shaun Abreu is introducing measures that...

11.04.2024 10

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This school report flunks: Mayoral control study provides no answers

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...

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Trump’s abortion talk con job: Don’t believe his claims of leaving it to the states

In a video address yesterday, former President Donald Trump reiterated the reality that states are currently in charge of determining abortion...

09.04.2024 20

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Make the Trump transcripts public: Justice Juan Merchan must order full transparency

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...

09.04.2024 7

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Game, set, match: New York must not fool with the new campaign public matching funds program

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...

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