Funny thing happened during this year’s Puerto Rican Day Parade, which in various incarnations has decorated Fifth Avenue every second Sunday in June since 1959. This was my 25th appearance, once as Grand Marshal. As about a million other...Read More
Jews are a drop in the bucket. There are only 15.8 million of us worldwide, about .02% of the global population. For context, in the United States alone, my infamous 1986 television special opening Al Capone’s Vault had an...Read More
Elon Musk may still be the world’s richest man, but it’s not for lack of trying. He has wrecked his friendship with Donald Trump and may have set his own far-flung enterprise on the road to ruin. Consider the...Read More
Bernie Kerik Wasn’t Perfect. “What’s happening!?’ He came up behind me, asking with his Cheshire Cat grin. It was Baghdad Iraq 2003 on a hot dusty rooftop overlooking Saddam Hussein’s just-conquered capital, and I never expected to see New...Read More
When I endorsed Kamala Harris in 2024, it was with regret. I was sorry to turn my back on my old friend Donald Trump, because he had been loyal and supportive. He was never perfect but for all his...Read More
What is an American other than someone born here or who immigrated and was subsequently naturalized? Not so fast. Maybe not. According to President Trump, birth in the United States does not automatically make someone a citizen of the...Read More
In almost 55 years in public life as a reporter and commentator no issue has proven more volatile than immigration, and in no issue have I been more out of step with the majority of folks who follow me....Read More
Now that you’ve asked, Disruption and drama are only bad when the perpetrators don’t know where they are going, what they are doing or why. Trump is living in an alternate reality. He must pick a lane as he...Read More
President Trump rolled the dice on tariffs last week, just like he did the week before on federal worker layoffs and roundups of undocumented immigrants the week before that. He has shaken the country’s confidence and dealt the stock...Read More
New York’s primary election is three months away, and the big city’s charming and flamboyant Mayor Eric Adams is in a jam. Forced by his indictment in September 2024 by the Biden-era Justice Department on federal corruption charges, he...Read More
