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EDITORIAL: Affordability is an urgent and burning issue, Mr. President — Americans want action
President Trump campaigned on making life more affordable. Inflation may have been tamed to 2%-3%, which is positive, yet prices aren’t going down as he says — and probably never...
The week in whoppers: Gavin Newsom lies about lying, Zohran Mamdani invents a 'mandate' and more
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani claimed that his election victory gave him a "mandate" for his far-left policies — despite only winning a slight majority of the vote.
New York City URGENTLY needs a sane City Council speaker
With Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani taking office Jan. 1, New York City desperately needs some steady hands at the top of city government: Having the City Council tap Julie Menin as...
NYC Republicans must wake up: They've got to become a real alternative, not a joke
The results in Tuesday’s mayoral election should be a wake-up call for New York Republicans. Their candidate, Curtis Sliwa, failed even to break double digits.
Top takeaways from the GOP election night shellacking
After getting creamed in elections across multiple states on Tuesday night, Republicans need to take a long, hard look at why Democrats' message is winning — while voters sour on...
Hooray! Voters bless a rollback of the City Council's power to block affordable housing
The passage of four ballot proposals delivered a well-deserved slap to the New York's City Council and will great help create more lower-cost housing at a time when at a...
Now violence-wishing pols win, it’s still ‘the economy, stupid’ and other commentary
“There was a time when suggesting that your opponents should watch their children die would have automatically cost you an election,” recalls Slate’s Molly Olmstead.
Mamdani won but has no mandate — it's up to Hochul to save the city
Zohran Mamdani has no mandate to ram through a radical agenda — and Gov. Kathy Hochul and fellow Democrats must see that he doesn't.
Mamdani, Spanberger, & Sherrill — what their victories mean for Dems & the GOP
Election Day 2025 was a good one for less-radical Democrats, or at least Dems who play moderate, as Abby Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill triumphed in Virginia and New Jersey.
The next mayor can't afford to turn its back on the NYPD's growing successes
As the clock runs down on Eric Adams' mayoralty, the city has fresh proof that Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch is turning things around at the NYPD.
ICE should cut Ali Faqirzada a break: He worked with America against the Taliban
Unlike the overwhelming major of Biden-era "asylum seekers," Faqirzada is the real deal.
Democrats' big shutdown 'win' is only going to be setting a new record for 'longest' — and most futile
President Donald Trump moved Monday to blunt the pain Democrats are inflicting on food-stamp families with their government shutdown, which will be the longest ever if it continues through Wednesday.
Family violence needs cop response, get feds out of food programs and other commentary
The case where “19-year-old Damien Hurstel of Staten Island [is charged with having] murdered and decapitated his mother’s boyfriend” is “just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to...
The sane right draws the line on Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes' bile
It's been heartening these last few days to see the overwhelming majority of the American right dump on low-rent hate-monger Nick Fuentes — and on podcaster Tucker Carlson for credulously...
Let's get real — a vote for Sliwa is a vote to make Mamdani mayor
A vote for Curtis Sliwa is a vote for a New York City that the majority of New Yorkers don't want.
Sending Tomahawks to Kyiv won't ignite World War III — they'll ignite peace talks
With the Pentagon signing off on the idea, the case just got stronger for giving Ukraine some Tomahawk missiles to force Vladimir Putin to make peace.
Democrats are losing pride in America — and that's a problem for BOTH
Republicans smirking at how Democrats have lost touch with most voters' values should think again — because having a sizeable minority of the population at odds with the rest is...
It'll be EASY for a Mayor Mamdani to abandon the schools
As Mayor Eric Adams' term winds down, the Panel for Educational Policy that's supposed to be the tool for mayoral control of the schools has gone rogue, both exceeding its...
20 reasons to vote against NYC mayoral front-runner Mamdani
If you want to protect NYC, don't pick Zohran Mamdani.
Is mega-phony Gavin Newsom the best the Democrats can do?
In an interview with “CBS News Sunday Morning,” Newsom said he'd be "lying" if he claimed that he's not considering a bid for the White House in 2028, while coyly...