Opinion

Readers sound off on police restraints, Jerome Powell and New York cricketers

Malverne, L.I.: To Voicer Susannah Bianchi: Thank you for your letter and your concern. The situation you described is unfortunate, but necessary to keep ...

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Liberia and the legacy of Black colonialism

Several years ago, I did a research project about Black Americans who had served in the Peace Corps in Africa in the 1960s and ...

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Health care construction helps working families

In neighborhoods across our city, New Yorkers are watching something that should scare all of us: hospitals that our communities depend on are shutting ...

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IRS rules changed for church & state

As socially-engaged New York City faith leaders who for decades have preached “with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other,” ...

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Readers sound off on pet personhood, congestion pricing’s benefits and private prisons

Tuckahoe, N.Y.: How sad that the Daily News chose to take aim at a court decision that might have significantly helped the plight of ...

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New York needs to declare a diabetes emergency

The silence of public authorities who do not address this pandemic with tried-and-true, very effective techniques must end immediately for the nearly 1 million ...

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International shakedown: Trump’s tariff threat against Brazil

A flawed interpretation of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act served as the legal foundation for Donald Trump’s irrational imposition of tariffs worldwide ...

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Readers sound off on the U.S. backing Israel, Nazi-looted art and reckless driving

Orlando: Two of the most horrific crimes of the twenty-first century took place in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Apartheid is what Israel ...

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Protect NYC kids with natural grass ball fields

Summer has arrived. The evenings are long and the days are brilliant. In all five boroughs, amateur athletes of all sizes have been traveling ...

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Brooklyn’s Jewish hoop dreams with 2 new Nets

It has been a difficult time for Jewish New Yorkers, with an anti-Zionist candidate running for our next mayor, antisemites shooting and firebombing Jews ...

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