In late April, hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered for the funeral of a beloved Chassidic rabbi, but New York’s mayor deemed their rites “absolutely unacceptable” and threatened mass arrests if it happened again. A month later, tens...
Read More
Angry protestors want to turn public sentiment against the police, but their ugly tactics remind all sane observers how much we need the cops. Rioting, looting, arson, Molotov cocktails, graffiti and vandalism demonstrate how vulnerable...
Read More
By Diane Medved — The early Coronavirus walkers started in March, venturing out in the cold, with barely any yellow-green buds emerging on the trees. That’s when I saw mostly pairs and trios of women, chatting while striding in...
Read More
What will history say about this pandemic and the way our leaders coped with it? In the five months remaining before the election, if the rate of death and infection goes down sharply, the economy will continue to re-open and both voters...
Read More
New unemployment figures show the tragic impact of the COVID-19 lockdown – while exposing the chief source of economic inequality. Contrary to conventional wisdom, racial disparities don’t make the biggest difference. In fact, the gap...
Read More
There’s notable disagreement over society’s response to the coronavirus – even among loyal supporters of President Donald Trump. My friend and talk radio colleague, Dennis Prager, has called the lockdown strategy “the greatest...
Read More
A cluster of alarming headlines in early May, appearing on the same page of newspaper, demonstrated that the pandemic paralyzing the globe has done little to dim the world’s ugly, bloody conflicts. The first New York Times headline...
Read More
Researchers may one day manage to explain why New York has suffered so much more intensely from coronavirus than other big cities across the country. It’s not a simplistic matter of race: the nation’s next largest city, Los Angeles,...
Read More
For decades, progressives have pushed relentlessly for public transportation to replace private cars and for greater population density to provide cheaper housing. But now the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus on New York—our...
Read More
Even the New York Times now acknowledges it: the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t so much a national crisis as it is a localized New York catastrophe. Columnist Bret Stephens shows New York City alone – representing less than 3% of the national...
Read More
Email Michael
Email
