Opinion

Many years ago, I was in the audience when the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil-rights activist and election mobilizer, gave a speech. He often used the catchphrase, “Keep hope alive!” when he spoke, and he did so that time. The audience picked it up as a chant, shouting out in unison: “Keep hope alive!” It […]

Gov. Kathy Hochul [recently] convened an “extraordinary session” of the New York Legislature in a knee-jerk overreaction to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that determined New York’s gun-licensing laws to be unconstitutional. And in typical Albany fashion, a new level of dysfunction was reached. The public, the legislature and anyone not sitting at the governor’s negotiating

The Supreme Court concluded its 2021 term with another blockbuster ruling, this time in West Virginia v. EPA, which struck down the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2015 Clean Power Plan under the Obama administration that sought to regulate carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act even though the law never contemplated doing so. In [this decision]

I was [recently] flying from San Francisco to Orange County, California. Near the end of the short flight, I looked out the window and was able to count a minimum of 25 cargo ships anchored off the Port of Long Beach. These ships were almost all anchored with a couple moving into the clog.  Incredibly a backlog still

The world is seeing the effects of Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine in [contributing to] rising oil and natural-gas prices. A much more serious impact is coming: a global food catastrophe. The war isn’t the only cause, of course. Bad weather exacerbated by climate change, including drought and floods, plays a role. So does bad government:

President Joe Biden in a June 14 speech to the AFL-CIO, stated, “I don’t want to hear any more of these lies about reckless spending. We’re changing people’s lives … by the end of the fiscal year, we will have cut the federal deficit by another $1.6 trillion — in one year.” President Biden may be

The ebbs and flows of the war in Ukraine still manage to command headlines these days, even if it’s without the intensity of previous months. But for all the attention to the battles and maneuvering on the ground, the issue that keeps U.S. policy makers up at night shows up only infrequently: Russia has the

Voters in San Francisco [recently] chose to recall District Attorney Chesa Boudin for his ineffective, soft-on-crime approach to his job. Unfortunately, New Yorkers currently do not have that option with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, as the state Constitution does not provide for recall elections. For this reason, I have joined Senate Republican Leader Rob

Public-opinion polls repeatedly show New Yorkers believe their state is headed in the wrong direction. After five months of legislative work and $220 billion in taxpayer money spent, that wrong direction hasn’t changed. The 2022 legislative session only served as a reminder that state government is as expensive and dysfunctional as it’s ever been. The

In the wake of the leaked draft opinion by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito overturning Roe v. Wade and holding that there is no constitutional right to an abortion, there has been a tidal wave of commentary on the Court’s politicization.  Much of it recently has come from the left or from abortion-rights advocates, arguing that