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My would-be assassins’ sentencing is a verdict for liberty and a warning to dictators
A courtroom in lower Manhattan last week delivered more than a verdict — it delivered a message. My Russian would-be assassins, sent by the Iranian regime, have been sentenced to...
Nonhostile takeover: How the Democratic Party gave in to radicals like Mamdani
The first law of politico-dynamics is power cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred to a stronger entity when the weak poorly defends it. The Democratic Party of old allowed...
Russia's feminist paradise proved anything but — even before Putin
To read Julia Ioffe’s new book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy” is to take a rambling ride — or a crash course if this...
Pervasive social-emotional learning brings Big Brother to the classroom
Here’s the dystopian scene: Students nationwide can’t read or do math at basic levels and don’t know elementary science or history facts, but there’s a big program to rewire their...
Gavin Newsom has high hopes — but rock-bottom results
When New York was the most populous and economically dominant state in the 19th and much of the 20th century, it was natural its governors would be quadrennial contenders for...
Letters reveal what it's really like to travel to space or survive polar bears and hurricanes in the Arctic
A new book of explorers' letters offers firsthand accounts of crazy adventures
Royal biographer Andrew Morton sizes up America-loving Winston Churchill
“Winston and the Windsors” covers Churchill's life across six monarchs, from his birth during Queen Victoria’s reign through Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI and, finally, Elizabeth II.
It's Cuomo or catastrophe for New York
This mayoral race is binary, not trinary. Voters need to get that through their heads as early voting begins this weekend.
Foreign adversaries are weaponizing the intelligence revolution
The danger isn’t just about privacy. It’s also about power.
Canal Street ICE raids weren't pretty — but something must be done to clean up a promising NYC block
With City Hall unable or unwilling to protect legitimate Canal Street businesses and the public from the scourge of unlicensed sidewalk merchants, somebody had to do the job or at...
How New Yorkers found true love: Inside the city's most inspiring 'meet cutes'
The guys behind "Meet Cutes NYC" share some of their favorite stories.
How America inspired Netanyahu to remake himself — and Israeli politics
The moment he stepped into the Knesset, aged just 38, Benjamin Netanyahu shone brilliantly in the skies of Israeli politics: He sprinkled stardust and prophecies of doom, and somehow, they...
A senator reveals the jokes and jibes while dining and debating in the world’s greatest deliberative body
We’ve got some characters in the Senate, but all senators try to be civil. There are only 100 of us, and we have to work together. But there are clues...
As we grow out of intellectual adolescence, religion’s popularity soars
Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens recorded a two-hour conversation in 2007 deriding religion that got millions of YouTube views and was said to have sparked an...
Russia’s running out of men and money to crack Ukraine’s ‘drone wall’
When Russian armored columns rolled into Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow’s confidence was so high, troops packed ceremonial parade kits instead of combat supplies. Instead, Ukrainian units picked apart a...
Ignore progressives: Child-welfare probes work — saving kids
Are child-welfare investigations traumatic for families? How should we weigh that trauma against learning if children are in danger and ensuring parents change their behavior? New York City’s Administration for...
NJ's last chance for change is on campaign trail — as Scott Presler hopes to repeat his Pa. success
After more than 25 years, I don’t know how much longer I can stay in the abusive relationship that I call being a New Jersey resident. I frequently contemplate leaving...
Young women are now obsessed with this 40-year-old cowboy novel
It rides again ...
Behind the race to detect — and treat — brain disease CTE before it kills
The gunman who unleashed chaos in a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper this summer is a stark reminder of how little we know about a devastating brain disease typically associated with NFL...
The famous forgers who fooled everyone — even the experts
In the words of Cole Porter, “Is it the good turtle soup or merely the mock?”