Andrew Cuomo as governor signed off on “reforms” that sent crime soaring, and now he’s giving New Yorkers fair warning: He still stands by them, because the no-bail law “righted a terrible wrong.” Translation: If you want to see perps locked up, don’t count on Cuomo. “We were putting people in Rikers, in jail, who...
On Sunday’s Maria Bartiromo show, President Donald Trump refused to rule out a recession this year amid a “period of transition” in the economy; on Monday the Dow dropped 2%, the Nasdaq 4%. There’s a connection here, but not strict causation. Markets are nervous over Trump’s tariffs; that the kick-in is on-again/off-again adds to the...
Is President Trump’s demand that protesters not be allowed to wear masks “mere bullying” or a “response to a real legal problem?” asks Philip Hamburger at The Wall Street Journal.
With the reported arrest and likely deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a noncitizen ringleader of antisemitic protests at Columbia and Barnard, ICE has put fresh teeth on President Donald Trump’s crackdown on campus hate. Hooray!
A bombshell Manhattan Institute study on soaring absenteeism in New York schools proves yet again that the state's education officials have utterly given up on educating children.
We genuinely hope Iran’s rulers react seriously to President Donald Trump’s letter urging them to come to a rapid agreement to abandon their nuclear-weapons programs.