Israel’s recent political roller-coaster ride came to a surprising halt yesterday with Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu on top — and saying he’s now poised to make the “tough decisions”...
The State Department painted it as an elegant way out of a ballooning crisis involving Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng — but by day’s end, it looked like a disgraceful performance by US diplomats...
A struggling economy. Cash shortfalls at City Hall, in Albany and Washington. A turbulent Mideast. A fateful US presidential election. The coming year is shaping up to be absolutely . . ....
‘I’m not going to have anything to do with a bill that does not respect the rights of the disabled community,” Gov. Cuomo said Friday, dissing a measure that would notably boost the number of...
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. — Niels BohrIn the unknown future of US national-security challenges, safe still beats sorry — especially when those challenges already...
Seoul Later this week, North Korea is expected to launch a long-range missile with a satellite on board; it’s likely to be just the first in a series of provocations by Pyongyang this year —...
Last week, a set of arbitrators gave a small MTA union, covering Staten Island and Queens bus workers, the same generous contract that a different arbitration panel awarded to the Transport Workers...
JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon’s admission last week that the bank blew $2 billion — maybe mor e — on a “terrible egregious” trading mistake isn’t just a warning that President Obama hasn’t fixed...
One crown jewel of the defense industry is about to shut its gates forever. Its closing should set off alarm bells about how long our military will remain the world’s best. Boeing’s fabled Wichita...
The Obama administration’s obsession with “green energy” is pushing us toward a needless and costly trade war with China over solar panels — at a time when the US oil- and gas-boom offers a huge...
Sheldon Silver has been speaker of the New York Assembly for going on 19 years now, and not for a moment of his tenure has he been his own man.But not until yesterday afternoon — when he openly...
Of all the cheesy stunts The Associated Press has pulled in its continuing calumny of the NYPD’s anti-terrorism efforts, the agency’s trip to Columbia University this past weekend will be hard to top...
Yesterday’s breathless campaign hysteria arose out of a not-really-much-of-a-scoop from the broadsheet across town: A rich guy in Omaha wants to spend a lot of money defeating Barack Obama. Stop the...
So how good is the Obama reelection campaign going to be? By “good,” I mean competent, able to plan elaborate events and respond quickly and effectively to fast-breaking news. Obama supporters have...
Somewhere deep in the State Department, experts are hard at work putting the final touches on the Obama administration’s strategy for the forthcoming talks on Iran’s nuclear program.Their...
Now to the third round! This was the battle cry across the French political spectrum yesterday, even as the threat of months of uncertainty loomed. The third round, of course, isn’t about electing...
So that “CIA coup” in Yemen against another al Qaeda underwear bomber turns out to actually have been a joint Saudi-British intelligence operation — which apparently was prematurely terminated thanks...
Let’s stipulate that the CIA’s discovery a fortnight ago of yet another underwear-bomber plot, this one originating with al Qaeda in Yemen and aimed at an American airliner, was a splendid feat of...
Bipartisanship, the supposed scarcity of which so distresses the high-minded, is disastrously prevalent. Since 2001, it has produced No Child Left Behind, a counterproductive federal intrusion in...
“You have a Prius. . . . You probably compost, sort all your recycling, and have a reusable shopping bag for your short drive to Whole Foods. You are the best! So, do we really need the Obama sticker...
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