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Michael Goodwin: Socialist boy-wonder Mamdani has learned next to nothing in his first 100 days as mayor of NYC

The slow education of Mayor Mamdani is painful to watch, especially for those New Yorkers forced to pick up the tab for his willful ignorance.

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Michael Goodwin

Michael Goodwin: The New York Times’ hate-filled agenda drags on

It’s not as if the ranks of antisemites were thinning and reinforcements are needed.

11.04.2026 7

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Michael Goodwin: Trump’s Iran approach a stark reminder of how hapless Jimmy Carter butchered saving US hostages in Tehran

Photographs showing shattered aircraft debris in the Iranian desert after last week’s stunning rescue of two American airmen reminded me of similar...

07.04.2026 8

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Michael Goodwin: Democrats are revving up to raid New Yorkers pockets for freebies

As budget season ramps up in City Hall and Albany, New Yorkers should prepare to be blitzed with grand promises of government goodies.

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Michael Goodwin: The bigotry against Israel is the latest political agenda conspired by Democrats

One of the most infuriating signs of our troubled era is that you don’t have to dig very far into the political barrel to find the antisemites.

28.03.2026 10

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Michael Goodwin: Trump Derangement Syndrome continues to fuel the left’s dangerous and misleading agenda

When the term “Trump Derangement Syndrome” was coined, the words carried a hint of gallows humor.

24.03.2026 10

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Hochul is running from her high-spending past — but Mamdani ties may sink her re-election hopes

Gov. Kathy Hochul knows her re-election hopes could depend on whether she can shake the image of being a high-tax and big-spending Democrat.

21.03.2026 10

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Mamdani distorting St. Patrick’s Day, Irish history just the latest example of his shameful obsession with Israel

In the midst of praise for Ireland and its former far-left president, Mary Robinson, at a Gracie Mansion breakfast, the mayor made a weird detour so...

17.03.2026 10

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Susan Rice is no stranger to dirty tricks — and her latest threat shows how shameless the Democrats are

Rice can best serve America now by going quietly into obscurity.

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The far-left media sympathizes with extremists who come to the US to cause chaos

In week two, the war against Iran and Hezbollah came home to America.

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Michael Goodwin: Mamdani hosting pro-Palestinian ‘activist’ Khalil proves he’s still a radical leftist when it comes to the Mideast

Mayor Mamdani is off to a terrible start, with even the weather turning against him.

10.03.2026 20

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Michael Goodwin: The righteous attack on Iran shows us the confederacy of evil can be defeated

It was only a week ago when the prospect of America and Israel teaming up to attack a heavily armed Iran seemed necessary but also very risky.

07.03.2026 10

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Michael Goodwin: Trump was left with no choice but to launch an attack on the Iranian regime

A major talking point among Democrats and their media handmaidens is that President Trump launched a “war of choice” against Iran.

03.03.2026 10

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Michael Goodwin: The death of Ayatollah Khamenei instantly makes the world a better place

In early January, President Trump warned Iran’s Islamist government that if it killed peaceful civilians protesting the economy’s collapse, “the...

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Michael Goodwin: Mayor Mamdani offers ‘sloppy’ response to NYPD officers attacked with snowballs

For better and worse, the tenure of any new major public official is often defined by events in the first 100 days of the term.

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Michael Goodwin: All is fair in love and war in the realtionship between Mayor Mamdani and Gov. Hochul

Gov. Hochul believed she was on the cusp of a beautiful relationship with Mayor Mamdani — until he rudely reminded her that the socialist agenda...

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Mamdani’s deficit math is nothing short of a cheap magic trick

Do you believe in magic?

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Trump has made his plans for Iran clear — make a deal or be dealt with

It’s been 20 years since Henry Kissinger made the insightful observation that Iran had to decide whether it is a cause or a country.

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Michael Goodwin: Mayor Mamdani is NYC’s Mr. Freeze – and his cold-hearted approach is costing homeless people their lives

One of the only things I admired about Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor was his temperament.

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Michael Goodwin: The Democratic Party we once knew is dead

Despite some grumbling, there was never any doubt that Gov. Hochul, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and Attorney General Letitia James would be on the fall...

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Michael Goodwin: The Clintons knew Team Trump was coming — and waved the white flag over Epstein

At first glance, the decision by Bill and Hillary Clinton to drop their long resistance and agree to testify before a GOP-controlled House panel about...

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Michael Goodwin: Mayor Mamdani’s political honeymoon is over — homeless deaths reveal his arrogance

With homeless New Yorkers freezing to death on the streets after Mayor Mamdani foolishly told police and social workers not to break up their...

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Michael Goodwin: Trump’s stance on immigration is key to his approach in de-escalating crisis in Minnesota

Whether you call it a pivot, course correction or de-escalation, it is a hopeful sign that President Trump is trying to lower the temperature in...

28.01.2026 10

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Michael Goodwin: House Dems broke ranks to hold the Clintons accountable on Epstein — it may be a sign of things to come

For those Americans longing for an end to the hyperpartisan gridlock in Washington, there’s finally some good news.

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Michael Goodwin: Trump’s America First strategy now pulling double duty on the international stage

Assuming his intention was to mark the first anniversary of his return to the White House, President Trump couldn’t have picked a more suitable time...

21.01.2026 20

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Michael Goodwin: Trump spared the ayatollah for now— but his options in Iran are still wide open

Almost from the day Donald Trump entered the political arena, the legacy media have been committed to depicting him as a trigger-happy warmonger...

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Michael Goodwin: Using the military for regime change in Iran would be a gamble — don’t turn it into another Iraq

American power can make itself known in various ways, as Teddy Roosevelt brilliantly outlined with his famous admonition to “Speak softly and carry...

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Michael Goodwin: NYC is in grave danger with Mayor Mamdani’s anti-policing policies

Though he’s been in office less than two weeks, Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Socialist-echoing choices of words and topics are early warning signs of...

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Michael Goodwin: Maduro’s arrival is the first domino to fall — as a Khamenei arrest could be next

Just as the Trump administration offered indicted drug trafficker Nicolás Maduro a free ride to New York he couldn’t refuse, reports are emerging...

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Michael Goodwin: Mamdani removes his thin mask with first-day order rescinding definition of antisemitism

There are good and bad ways to start an administration, then there’s the way Zohran Mamdani did it.

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Michael Goodwin: Looking back on 2 former NYC mayors who sparked major crises — as inexperienced Mamdani enters City Hall

Now is a good time to explore how the Big Apple got in and out of earlier mayoral-made crises, as soon-to-be radical mayor Zohran Mamdani is focused...

31.12.2025 20

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Michael Goodwin: Elise Stefanik’s withdrawal could open the door for Hochul to embrace a far-left agenda

An age-old belief among politicians is that Friday afternoon is the best time to release bad news.

21.12.2025 40

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Michael Goodwin: Terrorism, antisemitism are raging worldwide – and Mamdani is ill-equipped to lead through any of it

Sensible New Yorkers already were having anxiety attacks about their next mayor before a series of terrifying events in America and around the world...

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Michael Goodwin: This latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein photos proves it’s time to end the bipartisan obsession

Another day, another drum roll to signal another release of Jeffrey Epstein photos.

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Michael Goodwin: ‘Obedient’ NY Gov. Kathy Hochul lacking in confidence to lead and passes the buck on big decisions

Politicians have been described in many unsavory ways, but not since the days when Tammany Hall’s gangster bosses ruled the roost has a major New...

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Michael Goodwin: Mamdani’s senseless plan to end homeless camp sweeps will almost certainly make NYC’s problem worse

It’s all very easy to say. The doing will be very, very difficult.

07.12.2025 10

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Michael Goodwin: How NY followed Biden’s, Dems’ charge in harboring illegal immigrant criminals

For decades, Congress and a parade of presidents couldn’t agree on how to secure the southern border and what to do with the millions of illegal...

03.12.2025 20

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Michael Goodwin: Trump needs to hit the reset button if the GOP wants to win the 2026 midterms

As far as President Trump is concerned, T.S. Eliot got it all wrong.

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Michael Goodwin: Trump’s meeting with Mamdani comes as a shock and promise that there is hope for NYC

The expected — and even hoped for — explosion between President Trump and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani turned out to be a festival of...

23.11.2025 10

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Michael Goodwin: Trump miraculously receives praise from New York Times after UN backs Gaza peace plan

Miracles come in all shapes and circumstances, but here is a truly remarkable one: The New York Times has said something positive about President...

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Michael Goodwin: Gov. Hochul flip-flops her governing principles to accommodate Mayor-elect Mamdani’s agenda

Does Gov. Hochul actually have any governing principles, or is she just making it up as she goes along?

16.11.2025 10

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Michael Goodwin: Toxic Dems Schumer, Pelosi get shut down – and Trump stands tall with one of his biggest DC wins

The collapse of Chuck Schumer’s shutdown gambit when seven fellow Democrats and one independent broke ranks with him serves as a humiliating bookend...

12.11.2025 20

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Michael Goodwin: Financial penalties for Mamdani election by GOP could cause irreversible damage to NYC

As awful as the mayoral election outcome was for sensible New Yorkers, misguided Washington Republicans plan to use the results as a club to further...

09.11.2025 20

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Michael Goodwin: Graceless sore winner Zohran Mamdani immediately drops his mask and declares war on NYC

Having fallen in love with the sound of his own voice and apparently convinced he is heaven-sent, a besotted Zohran Mamdani missed the warning that...

06.11.2025 20

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Michael Goodwin: A Zohran Mamdani mayoralty would mean a long, sour decline for NYC

The New York mayoral race, where the Democrats’ nominee, Zohran Mamdani, is pushing a sweepingly radical agenda.

02.11.2025 30

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Michael Goodwin: Andrew Cuomo has my vote for NYC mayor – the Big Apple cannot afford a Mamdani mistake

If anyone had dared to tell me last winter that I would eventually vote to make Andrew Cuomo New York’s next mayor, I would have shot back, “Never.”

29.10.2025 10

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Michael Goodwin: Zohran Mamdani will finally have to answer for his sickening antisemitism at NYC mayoral debate

For the better part of a year, Zohran Mamdani has not paid a political price for his sickening anti-Israel and anti-Jewish positions and comments.

15.10.2025 20

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Michael Goodwin: Trump bringing peace to the Middle East is the real prize

In hindsight, it was clear all along that President Trump didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

12.10.2025 20

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Michael Goodwin: NY Times should be ashamed of covering up Biden-appointed Jack Smith spying on Republican senators

Leftist media outlets never tire of preaching that the great lesson of Watergate is that the coverup is worse than the crime.

08.10.2025 30

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Michael Goodwin: Hamas hits a new low for being too ‘slow’ on following through on peace deal negotiated by Trump

The Middle East being the Middle East, it was probably foolish to believe or even hope that the broad support for President Trump’s Gaza peace plan...

05.10.2025 30

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