Listen up, Trumpophobes. It’s not so hard to understand the president’s appeal. Try going to one of his rallies and, instead of turning up your nose at the Walmart people, listen and learn. The abuse of President Trump and his supporters that passes for analysis from his opponents is a strategic error. The more abuse, Read More…

New Yorkers can’t catch a break: While ObamaCare fueled sharp hikes in health-insurance premiums for individuals, the state itself has helped drive up the cost of policies paid for by employers — and it’s not just the bosses who feel the pinch. As the Empire Center’s Bill Hammond reported, premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance in Read More…

Mayor Bill de Blasio may want to “tax the hell out of the wealthy,” but a Citizens Budget Commission study out last week warned that the city and state are already too reliant on tax revenue from the rich. Taxpayers with $1 million or more in taxable income accounted for 1 percent of personal-income-tax filers Read More…

It’s now beyond official: Gross mismanagement and obscene union contracts are the chief culprits driving the MTA’s outrageous overtime costs. That’s the bottom line from a scathing 61-page report released Thursday by outside auditors. “For years, MTA leadership at all levels has been on notice of management’s failures to address overtime issues but has permitted Read More…

In September 2018, activist groups around New York rushed to denounce the Trump administration for considering making changes to the “public-charge” rule for immigrants. The publicly funded New York Immigration Coalition, or NYIC, staged a protest outside the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side. Leaders of the organization were arrested after they sat down Read More…

Friday’s board meeting of the state-subsidized Metropolitan Transportation Authority dissolved into chaos: At one point, members aggressively bickered as chairman Pat Foye begged them to “stop, stop!” But this is politically purposeful chaos. Gov. Cuomo is happy to watch his people scream at each other while he figures out what to do about his broke Read More…

We regret to inform you that Jay-Z has been canceled. No, it’s not his future ­album, or his next concert, that has been canceled — but Jay-Z, the human being. He has been axed, nixed, non-personed. On Wednesday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Jay-Z announced a partnership between the league and the legendary rapper’s entertainment Read More…

From the right: Look at Prez’s Actions, Not His Words President Trump “speaks differently from most other statesmen on the world stage,” admits Roger Kimball in American Greatness, and often Trump’s crudeness rankles. Yet rhetoric aside, “the most outrageous part of Trump’s tenure to date has been the success of his economic policy” and the Read More…

The stench of New York pay-to-play politics refuses to fade. For the latest foul fumes, point your nose toward Brooklyn. That’s where Borough President Eric Adams set up a nonprofit, the One Brooklyn Fund, in 2014. And it looks a lot like the one that got Mayor de Blasio in trouble. As with Hizzoner’s now-defunct Read More…

Joe Biden, 76, has been getting heaps of attention for his verbal gaffes. Alas, voters should worry about a far bigger problem: It’s impossible to know what he stands for. Yes, some of his slip-ups can be head-scratching. Democrats choose “truth over facts,” he said. Huh? The kids from the Parkland high-school shooting — which Read More…

At first blush, Israel’s decision to bar Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib looked like a mistake. My gut reaction was that the move would simultaneously make Israel appear weak and allow critics to claim the incident proves the Jewish state has no interest in peace with the Palestinians. It didn’t help that Prime Minister Read More…

I’m a lawyer who fights for victims of online harassment, sexual assault and blackmail. When I first started my Brooklyn firm five years ago, I was known as “the revenge-porn lawyer,” and indeed many of my clients were young women whose naked pictures had been posted on the Internet without their consent for the world Read More…

Presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson recently tweeted that, “There’s an ancient strain of misogyny that labels any women who doesn’t toe the line with the status quo of her time as ‘crazy’ or ‘dangerous.’ Twas always thus.” It’s true that women in male-dominated fields — like politics — are often held to a higher standard. And Read More…

Chris Cuomo recently unleashed a vulgar, threatening tirade on a hapless jerk who called him “Fredo,” the pathetic brother from “The Godfather,” insisting it’s “an N-word” for the Italian-American community. It was, of course, a ridiculous overreaction. In no way is “Fredo” comparable to the N-word. The guy who yelled at Cuomo obviously meant to Read More…

Israel’s decision this week to deny Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib unconditional visiting rights couldn’t have been an easy one. And it’s not cost-free. But it was understandable — and well within Jerusalem’s right to make. Former Israeli UN Ambassador Michael Oren said Israel faced a “lose-lose” choice — between letting the two congresswomen Read More…

Mayor de Blasio is so desperate to gin up support for his going-nowhere 2020 presidential run, he’s now spewing blatant falsehoods about his performance as mayor — figuring, perhaps, that non-New Yorkers won’t notice. As a service to readers, we’ll set the record straight. Falsehood No. 1: “I’m proud to say in New York, we’ve Read More…

This week, one of the many repeat offenders allowed to walk our streets unleashed a barrage of bullets on Philadelphia police officers. What started as the execution of a narcotics warrant turned into a seven-hour standoff punctuated by shootouts that left six officers wounded. While many Americans were glued to their televisions or phones awaiting Read More…