Opinion

Readers sound off on retiree benefits, Virginia Giuffre and a dynamite attack’s survivors

Troy, N.Y.: The Retired Public Employees Association, which speaks for around 500,000 retirees from New York state and local governments, is adamantly against any ...

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Freedom Plaza’s casino invests in community

I am proud to support Freedom Plaza, a visionary proposal as part of New York’s downstate casino bid just south of the United Nations ...

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This rabbi protests Israel’s government

I participated in a civil disobedience demonstration outside the Israeli Consulate in New York City this week along with ten other rabbinic colleagues.After causing ...

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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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