Tag: New York

How would you like to wake up one morning to the following headline: "Donald Trump Indicted for Criminal Racketeering"? Well, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist...

Two weeks ago, New York became the 14th state to legalize recreational marijuana. A week later, Virginia became the 15th and the first Southern state. Most...

Former Democratic presidential candidate--now New York City mayoral candidate--Andrew Yang had a unique signature issue among last year's other presidential contenders. He wanted to give...

Change may be slow at times, but nothing can stop it. Every year is historic in its own way, but 2020 stands out as one...

Responding to pressure from environmental groups, New York has become the first state to divest its massive public pension fund from fossil fuel companies. Comptroller...

A month ago, as New York became the national coronavirus/COVID-19 epicenter, many were hailing Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a hero. Looking and sounding far more...

Centuries from now, historians will be writing (or whatever the equivalent will be) about how we handled--and didn't handle--the coronavirus/COVID-19 that has, to date,...

Why is Florida apparently the only state to be receiving the lion's share of equipment necessary to combat the coronavirus? Might it have something to...

The message is now loud and clear: anyone who fails to obey Trump will be swiftly punished. Days after Donald Trump was acquitted in his...

Donald Trump is moving. No, not out of the White House. Not yet.  (It's coming.) Like millions of septuagenarians, he's relocating to Florida because New York is...

Nothing will escape climate change's ravages. International borders, economies, food and water supplies, health, education, transportation, energy sources, are all predicted to change with the...

Donald Trump's home state of New York is doing something to rein in the president's deportation force, aka Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE is...

Twenty-two. That's how many veterans on average commit suicide in the United States every day. It's also the number of miles Navy veteran Thomas Zurhellen plans...

As far as electoral politics goes, New York is solidly in the “blue” category along with California, Washington, Oregon, Vermont, Minnesota, and Massachusetts. But even though...

We will probably have universal healthcare in this country within our lifetimes. If you're a New York City resident, though, you needn't wait any longer. Although...

Last week's New York Times piece debunking Donald Trump's oft-repeated lie “I built what I built myself” may have gotten somewhat buried amid the coverage frenzy...

True or false: New York has one of the most progressive voting systems in the nation. Yes, New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, is a Democrat. Yes,...

The end of June saw a pivotal moment in electoral history when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an obscure 28-year-old Democratic Socialist from the Bronx with no prior...

This has been some week in the Trump/Russia connection. On Monday, Donald Trump committed treason by siding with Moscow over Russian meddling in the 2016 American presidential election. On Wednesday, the New...

Antonio Delgado is young--41. He graduated with honors from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, earning a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. He earned a law degree from...