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First, a “textualist” Supreme Court majority ignored the Second Amendment clause attaching gun rights to “a well regulated Militia.”...
In New York City, any day that the local Democratic Party machine loses is a good day. And while the bosses still are holding tight in the Bronx and...
We like the way Ben & Jerry’s tastes — especially Phish Food (even though we don’t care much for the band). But the ice-cream-brand founders’...
Under the twisted vision of the Supreme Court majority, states and localities are now barred from deciding who can get a permit to carry a concealed...
Victorious gubernatorial nominees Kathy Hochul (who we endorsed) and Lee Zeldin disagree on just about everything, but they were united in opposing...
For at least 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America, a dream of a better life and personal safety in the United States ended horrifically inside...
The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol didn’t need to make it dramatic with a surprise witness and...
The six conservatives on the Supreme Court, who purport to revere the Constitution, have a funny way of ignoring the parts of the document that go...
Every election it seems, the partisan hacks of the city Board of Elections find a novel way to screw up. Despite the light turnout yesterday and not...
Bill de Blasio is not a lawyer, but he can read and had expert attorneys advising him as mayor — which is why he was correct to have qualms with a...
We give credit to Rudy Giuliani for the way he made public spaces safer from actual violence as mayor of this fine city. Now Giuliani has morphed into...
Today is primary day. As last week’s Supreme Court decisions eviscerating New York’s sensible restrictions on gun possession and ending a federal...
In the four-day period from June 18 to June 21, Rikers Island claimed three lives. Antonio Bradley, Albert Drye and Anibal Carrasquillo won’t be...
New Jersey (Phil Murphy, governor) seems to us to be in blatant violation of a clear order of the U.S. Supreme Court. No, it’s not about guns or...
It has now been more than a month since Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed. Covering an Israeli military...
In 2004, seeing substantial risk of state sponsorship of religion, the Supreme Court rightly ruled, 6-3, that Washington State could deny scholarship...
Hooray for state Sens. Leroy Comrie and Liz Krueger for conducting an illuminating oversight hearing on Gov. Cuomo’s dumbly conceived,...
In stark contrast to the small group who first marched 52 years ago for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, Sunday’s Pride...
When, last December, a departing Mayor de Blasio announced that almost all private employers had to force their workers to be vaxxed against COVID-19...
Count us fans of the Food and Drug Administration’s historic push to reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes, which, in concert with a proposed ban on...
What some insisted was a still-incubating draft majority decision overturning Roe v. Wade was fully born Friday: The Supreme Court has completely...
The primaries for Assembly are Tuesday. That’s terrible because, as the state courts have found, the creation of the new district lines violated the...
Two things are true. A nation awash in guns that’s endured more than 250 mass shootings so far this year, and that suffers about 19,000 gun...
Using a garbled reading of history as a crutch, the U.S. Supreme Court’s supposed textualist conservatives have just managed to codify a cartoon...
It is impossible to look at the legions of high school and college girls and women who have benefited from the ability to play competitive sports and...
Let’s make one thing clear off the bat: Raising rent by any amount, anywhere, hurts renters, especially lower-income tenants who are already...
Imagine that it’s 1987, 33 years after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Brown vs. Board of Education that enforced legal segregation of...
At a panel discussion at the Holocaust museum downtown yesterday for his forthcoming film, “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” Ken Burns said that...
American public officials are unfortunately no strangers to unhinged threats by people who believe the appropriate response to their policies is...
To pull the emergency brake on subway crime that’s up 56% over last year, our former transit cop mayor, Eric Adams, is ordering police to conduct...
When the city required its hundreds of thousands of municipal employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect public health in the midst of a...
The pro-Hochul message is going out to millions of New Yorkers, landing in their mailboxes right before the Democratic primary next week. No, this...
Eleven-thousand, seven-hundred and seventy-nine is the number of votes by which Joe Biden beat Donald Trump in Georgia, and 11,780 is the number of...
Since Juneteenth — an important holiday we wrote about yesterday that much of America is only beginning to formally celebrate — is being observed...
Like the New York City Bar Association (founded 1870), the Daily News (founded 1919) has long supported the merit selection of judges instead of by...
The world body governing international swimming has a new rule starting today that trans women can only compete in women’s events if they have never...
Democratic primary voters have a three-way choice of lieutenant governor on their ballots right underneath the title card. Our advice, as always, is...
Two-and-a-half years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the enslaved people of Texas learned — via the Union Army — that they...
Kathy Hochul, who Andrew Cuomo didn’t give the time of day when she was his understudy, stepped into the governorship in the midst of a pandemic, a...
New York Republicans have an energetic four-way primary for governor, offering a range of personalities and policies and political realities. The...
File it under depressingly predictable: Wednesday and Thursday, Senate Republicans and Democrats were running into political friction as they tried to...
With a short order issued Tuesday, Manhattan Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain decided to give the city and the Department of Correction the benefit of...
Hang Mike Pence’s portrait in the gallery of national heroes. As riveting testimony from yesterday’s Jan. 6 hearing showed again and again, it was...
A reviewer shouldn’t recommend a movie without having seen it, but we’ll break the rule here to talk up a thing of beauty we’ve never laid our...
As New Yorkers commence the first round of our state’s unfortunate split primary balloting with the start of early voting on Saturday, we offer a...
New York housing is an area where progress can be hard to measure. Oft-used measures of affordable housing “created and preserved” doesn’t tell...
For decades, we have been against City Council member items, the millions in tax dollars used to funnel money to nonprofits blessed by incumbents....
The highest court in New York, the Court of Appeals, turned down a request to hear the case against the unconstitutional Assembly district maps that...