There is about the Epstein files the unmistakable feeling that some of the names on his list are avoiding justice. The grisly image of some potbellied super rich sheik or prince or president messing around with children groomed and sacrificed...Read More
Call me crazy, but I still like Trump. I know the media is awash with columns and news stories about his inexorable march toward autocracy, and maybe history will prove I am delusional, but I can’t get over the feeling...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