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Campaign Finance Board's voter-guide fiasco errors are no laughing matter
A near-$7 million bungle by the city Campaign Finance Board is fresh sign that an outfit with huge power over city elections is in dire need of overhaul — if...
Ukraine's surprise strike deep in Russia — an excellent way to push Putin to talk peace
The Ukrainians are not only fighting heroically on, more than three years after Moscow launched its savage and utterly unprovoked war to destroy their nation, they’re fighting with cheek and...
Biden cover-up demands ‘Watergate’ hearings, Democrats’ Hispanic exodus and other commentary
“Missing from the hand-wringing” over “the massive coverup of Joe Biden’s mental decline,” fumes Kenneth L. Khachigian at The Wall Street Journal, “is a demand for accountability.”
Hamas' cease-fire 'counteroffer' is just a demand for Israel to give up the war
Reality check: The terrorists are only talking because they’re losing, badly — losing whatever support they had from ordinary Gazans as well as militarily.
DOGE started the war on waste —now it's up to Congress to keep it going
As Elon Musk exits his role at the Department of Government Efficiency, making the savings his team found stick is now in Congress' hands.
End of watch for ex-NYPD Commish Bernie Kerik, 1955-2025
Former NYPD commissioner Bernard Kerik, “America’s Cop,” who helped make New York the safest big city in America and led the department through the 9/11 terror attack, passed away Thursday...
Lefties' pro-migrant push-back on Tisch's e-bike crackdown is obscene
The far-left progressives on the City Council just once again proved they will prioritize the rights of scofflaws over the safety of law-abiding New Yorkers.
Trump v. California on women’s sports, a risky mortgage retread, and other commentary
The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will become “a slow-motion car crash” over the issue of transgender athletes in women’s sports, The Spectator's Jennifer Sey warns.
Zohran Mamdani's radical socialist vision would bankrupt NYC
Zohran Mamdani promises it all and more, with all the authority of a nepo baby who's never had a real job in his life nor even achieved anything of note...
White House should take court setback as a chance for a reset on tariffs
The court ruling derailing President Donald Trump’s biggest tariff moves gives the White House a chance to rethink its trade approach while the rest of the Trump agenda gets the...
The week in whoppers: Ro Khanna insists Dems aren't 'woke and weak,' Patti LuPone flames the Trump-led Kennedy Center and more
Rep. Ro Khanna said that fellow Democrats should be proud of their "great" party after being criticized as woke and weak.
After tot's scary brush with an e-bike, NYC must rethink its bike lanes
In South Williamsburg on Sunday, a 3-year-old girl was injured when she exited a parked vehicle and dashed into the bike lane, directly in the path of a barreling e-bike.
Dems’ suicidal groupthink, Israel haters’ anti-aid insanity and other commentary
Why, asks the Liberal Patriot’s John Halpin, did Democrats’ leaders ignore years of warnings about the party’s “setbacks and travails with working-class voters of all races” and how its “economic...
Trump's team needs to spell out what 'winning' over Harvard means, or they risk defeat
We’re happy to cheer Team Trump as it confronts Harvard University and the rest of US academia — but we’re not sure what the end game is here, nor if...
New sanctions are 'really bad things' that Trump should drop on peace-averse Putin
President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that Vladimir Putin is "playing with fire" by continuing to wage all-out war on Ukraine.
Politicizing US-led Gaza food aid only serves Hamas and other Israel-haters
On Tuesday, the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began distributing food to civilians in the war-wracked area — and the voices who'd been loudest about "starvation" in Gaza complained.
Andrew Cuomo vows to stand up to the far left — but his record says the reverse
It's no real surprise that Andrew Cuomo has shifted markedly left as he runs for mayor — since that simply continues the turn he took as governor.
Missing from the 'tell-all' exposés: How did the Biden admin careen so far left?
Jake Tapper and his co-author, Axios reporter Alex Thompson, revealed that the Biden White House was run by a so-called "politboro" made up of long-time members of the former prez's...
London's soaring 'congestion' fees are a fresh warning for NYC
As Gov. Kathy Hochul and other New York politicians gloat over court rulings that protect their “congestion pricing” fees, ponder this: London’s “congestion” levy is about to jump to nearly...
Antisemitic DC killings must be a wake-up call for NYC voters
Last week's horrific murders in Washington, DC, can only further feed the backlash against rising antisemitism already brewing in next month's city Democratic primaries down the ballot.