Opinion

President Trump’s vulgar comments about Africa are bad enough. Far more disturbing is his lack of action fighting world hunger, especially that continent’s famine threat. The United Nations just sounded

Dear Mayor de Blasio: As you know, Erica Garner — daughter of Eric Garner, the unarmed 43-year-old black father of six who was killed in 2014 when an NYPD officer

President Trump recently floated the idea of raising the national gas tax to pay for a possible infrastructure program, but was rebuffed by congressional Republicans. The President is totally right,

Gov. Cuomo, who over two terms has waged noble warfare to rein in what had been runaway spending by both Democrats and Republicans, presents an eighth budget with a big-deal

Real Italians don’t love Columbus Manhattan: There is more than one opinion about Columbus statues among Italian-Americans, yet your reporters keep repeating the same one. Italy has no monuments to

If you ever find yourself nodding along as President Trump speaks, just wait a little; he’ll disappoint you soon enough. A week ago, with congressional Democrats and Republicans gathered around

The comedian Aziz Ansari has to be wondering why his lousy attempt to get laid made him roadkill on the internet, where a young woman he got naked with in

Every year in his executive budget, Gov. Cuomo has no choice but to reckon with taxes and spending. When it comes to jamming other policy changes into that statement of

The post-racial America we were promised by many of President Obama’s true believers seems more like a fleeting hallucination — or the kind of dream you wake up from not

Poor Aziz Ansari. Having to sit through a detailed critique of your sexual performance is never easy. To make things worse, thanks to the #MeToo crusade, bad sex is no

Last Thursday, we sent a letter a letter signed by more than 70 mental health professionals — psychiatrists, psychologists and others — urging Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, the White House

Last week, the House of Representatives voted to authorize warrantless searches of Americans’ phone calls and e-mails by the CIA, FBI, and NSA. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had a

I met Donald Trump 40 years ago, when I was a young engineer working for the general contractor on the New York Grand Hyatt Hotel. Trump was the developer. After

Calling all kittens: Get fixed fast Brunswick, Me.: If you like cats, you’ll really like this letter. If you don’t like cats, you’ll also like this letter. We can come

Far be it for a newspaper committed to rooting out government waste and misdeeds to judge harshly new City Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s decision to supercharge a sleepy investigations committee