Opinion

Working for a difficult or temperamental boss is common in the U.S. One survey [from global staffing firm Robert Half] showed roughly half of the employees quit their job due to what they termed a bad boss. But high turnover isn’t the only downside such bosses cause. Abrasive or toxic leadership creates many other costs […]

Call it American exceptionalism or not, the American people have always embraced the idea that we live in an exceptional country. We are grateful to be Americans. We take a lot of pride in our country, as we should. Pride and patriotism are among America’s greatest strengths.  Having said that, we need to be clear-eyed about

OPINION President Donald Trump’s return to the White House [on Oct. 5] provides Americans hope that COVID-19 is not a death sentence, with mortality down per capita since the spring.  This does not mean that people in high-risk categories should spend the next three months going to every party they can find. What it does mean

OPINION: I’ve been in and around politics for a long time, and not once, ever, have I encountered a candidate who said he or she might not accept the results of an election. Until now.  Certainly, in close-fought races candidates might ask for a recount. But once the precinct workers and town and city clerks

OPINION [Recently], the Assembly Minority Conference joined the families of violent-crime victims to call for changes to New York’s parole procedures and implore the state to fix its broken criminal-justice system. Despite pleas to keep cop-killers and rapists behind bars, the state’s misguided parole board has allowed individuals convicted of heinous acts of violence out

OPINION Elections are the hallmark of representative democracy. As a nation, we put a great deal of faith in elections, and the voting process. We abide by their results. Elections are fundamental to our system of government. We commit to a peaceful transfer of power to the election winners. Elections are the way we do business

OPINION Since labor markets bottomed in April after the COVID-19 lock-downs, nearly 14 million jobs have been recovered in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And one of the biggest reasons was because the Trump administration and Congress worked together on the CARES Act, which provided $525 billion in funding to 5.2

OPINION It probably feels like the 2020 elections have been going on for years, and in a sense they have. Ever since Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, the political world has been girding for this moment.   But more Americans than you might expect have only just begun paying attention now that we’re in the

New York families recently received some long-awaited good news with the announcement that restrictive nursing-home visitation policies were finally being adjusted. Nursing-home visits had been banned since March because of the pandemic. Since then, some residents’ friends and loved ones were unable to visit because of strict visitation rules that went into effect over the summer.

I was talking to a friend not long ago who was pretty down on politics in all its forms. “I actually find real enjoyment in politics,” I told him. He asked if I was nuts.   No, I said, there’s a lot of pleasure — even joy — to be found in participating. Case in point: