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We live in an era of political caricatures, so it’s no small thing that New York just elected as its 110th mayor a man who defies stereotype in ways that are likely to bedevil the chattering classes…

Even though 69% of Americans support local school district mask mandates, members of the minority are far louder, and they control the levers of power in the Capitols of states where COVID is currently raging.

Eric Adams is the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, which gives him a 97% chance (to pick a totally made-up number) of becoming the next chief executive of America’s largest municipal government.

We don’t know how many people will turn out to vote in the way-earlier-than-usual Democratic mayoral primary on June 22 and in the early voting that runs 10 days prior.

The emboldened progressive Democrats who now rule the roost in the state Capitol, who were hoping for the first time to have one of their own occupy City Hall in 2022 — Bill de Blasio, now widely…

Culture trumps politics; it’s a widely accepted truth.

The theme of Joe Biden’s inaugural address was that we must bring America together as a prerequisite to defeat the COVID pandemic, revive the economy, confront climate change, move toward racial…

Wednesday, a dozen U.S. senators and at least 140 members of the House, Republicans all, will formally object to the counting of final, certified electoral vote tallies from swing states Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden.

I wrote speeches and did a little policy work, mostly on education, for then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani from 1997 to 2001.

I like Joe Biden well enough, but I see his flaws clearly: He’s a rickety communicator.

For the first presidential election since, well, the invention of Twitter, I spent a debate actually watching the thing on one big screen, not simultaneously following it on a second small one.

Of all the mistakes Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Richard Carranza made in trying to reopen the nation’s largest school system, one stands out.

I have nothing against families or businesses that leave New York City.

When Kamala Harris attacked Joe Biden for opposing federally mandated busing in the 1970s, holding herself up as the beneficiary of a school integration program as a little girl, she created a…

Just spitballing here, but maybe we could delay the November election, ignoring the Constitution and history and Congress, and keep me, the president, in power a while longer.

The largest public school system in America is planning on sending kids back into buildings this fall, kind of.

President Trump wants America to know he stands for law and order: in Portland, in Chicago, at the border, everywhere.

Gov. Cuomo, no stranger to producing embarrassing political posters, has done it again, this time saluting his own leadership and the achievements of New York State in the coronavirus crisis with a…

Structural racism is real. Its consequences are severe, turning the promise of equal opportunity into a mockery for millions.

In his briefing Tuesday, Gov. Cuomo spoke about Trump administration infection projections and the itchiness around the country to loosen coronavirus shutdown restrictions and get back to work.

Social distancing makes all the sense in the world in the pivotal early stage of a fast-moving outbreak like this coronavirus.

As testing slowly ramps up and officially reported cases of the novel coronavirus in the United States start rising in state after state, it’s increasingly clear that the virus is in the wild.

“Don’t tell me this isn’t about sexism,” is what at least one feminist writer has said about Elizabeth Warren’s failure to win the Democratic nomination.

Bernie Sanders is unlike Donald Trump in just about every way, and in just about every way they differ, Bernie wins the comparison.

Too bad Mike Bloomberg doesn’t have enough money to get everyone who saw an embarrassing exchange on sexual harassment claims at his company to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Michael Bloomberg was a good mayor of New York City, and he’d make a good president.

I don’t like the push to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel.

Mike Bloomberg kicked off his run for president by apologizing for the stop, question and frisk policies his police department oversaw, patting down young black and Latino men by the hundreds of…

On the surface, a fearmongering demagogue president might seem like an odd we-go-down-together blood brother for a man who, as mayor, was once a proudly heterodox Republican who defended sanctuary…

As if there weren’t already reason enough to worry about the future of the news business in an age when Facebook strip-mines media revenue and a president brands reporters enemies of the people, it…

Earlier this month, my family got through New York City’s gifted-and-talented public school admissions gauntlet for my daughter.

Just about everything I’m going to write here is obvious, but because the obvious frequently escapes us these days, it needs to be repeated.

Whadya know: The guy who strung us along with Al Capone’s vault 32 years ago was one of a dozen prominent right-wing commentators who, to excite the creatures in the fever swamp, spread nasty…

Today’s Senate hearings will not just present parallel histories of the teenage years of Brett Kavanaugh — his, of being a basically upright young man who occasionally drank to excess, vs.

When Mayor de Blasio tapped ex-prosecutor Mark Peters to head the city’s chief anti-corruption oversight agency in 2014, he called him “a man with immense personal integrity and extensive experience…

Editorial boards across the country are getting derided for joining in the Boston Globe’s call to push back on President Trump’s vilification of the media and affirm the importance of a press that’s free and unafraid.

Dispatch from the future in which we increasingly live: Tech companies that build new ways of connecting people, that build up billion-dollar valuations promising never-before-imagined possibilities…

It’s been an agonizing week here. The Daily News just laid off half its newsroom.

The resignation of Eric Schneiderman Monday night was a foregone conclusion given the devastating specificity of the brutality described by women who detailed it to the New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer.

Anthony Scaramucci is gone, but the man who two weeks ago was seduced by his swaggering and sycophantic act remains.

Throughout last year, many of us thought Donald Trump would be a very bad President.

Suppose, 99 days into the Trump presidency, you, American citizen concerned about the future of the republic, were beginning to calm down just a little.

When a dictator uses chemical weapons against his people, he should feel consequences.

Donald Trump, a very small man, is about to swear on the Bible and take over the world’s biggest job.

Candidate Trump played a foul game of footsie with the alt-right, the white nationalists who were among his most fervent fanboys.

Donald Trump shocked the world but not his supporters and now rockets into the White House with a mandate.

In his first debate with Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan famously calmed voters skeptical about whether he could cross the threshold of gravitas and look like a President.

Start with this: A depressingly high percentage of Donald Trump’s supporters hold abhorrent beliefs, and it insults the intelligence to mince words about that.

The difference between the video introducing Hillary Clinton and the speech she gave was palpable.

The headline came across my Twitter feed in the middle of an undercard speech Wednesday night: “Trump Seeks More Foreign Guest Workers For His Companies.” The news: That as he seeks to hire 78 cooks…

These days, when we are contractually required to have unnaturally strong opinions about everything and love or loathe everyone, when a reality TV star who insults people for sport is the Republican…

The embittered Bernie Sanders brigades who interrupted speeches throughout the first day and night of the Democratic convention, chanting for their man and booing every mention of the nominee, as…

All throughout the primary campaign, Donald Trump boasted about how his supposedly electric (and, I would add, disgustingly demagogic) presence boosted debate ratings.

I used to work for Rudy Giuliani. I saw him up close for more than four years and won’t call him a racist.

What does Donald Trump actually believe? What does he really intend to do in the Oval Office?

A strange phenomenon buoys Donald Trump’s presidential prospects — one perhaps unprecedented in American politics: Voters are rewarding a would-be President because he’s proposing policies that are…

Well, that was anticlimactic. After the burning passion on display at his massive Prospect Park rally, after vicious attacks on Hillary Clinton — including the preposterous claim that she wasn’t…

Thursday night I was conflicted: I love New York and I love Brooklyn (even the new Brooklyn peering up at the stage through Warby Parker glasses).

Throughout his tenure in the Oval Office, the angriest foes of Barack Obama have had a few consistent lines of attack against the two-term President — all of which have been exposed as rampantly…

With Donald Trump a fortnight away from essentially clinching the nomination with winner-take-all primaries in Florida and Ohio, responsible Republican leaders must snap out of their slumber — month…

Remember when Barack Obama promised the world in 2008, only to leave some enthusiasts bereft after he failed to close Guantanamo, much less slow the rise of the oceans?

It went like this, over and over again: Bernie Sanders: Here’s a problem I want to fix and how I’d fix it.

If the polls are correct, Republican voters, many of whom spent eight years attacking President Obama — whatever his faults, a highly dignified leader — for conducting himself in a way beneath the…

Hillary Clinton has to hope and pray that New Hampshire and Iowa voters, far less racially and ethnically diverse than the nation as a whole, are a rare breed of Democrat (and independent) – not that…

I don’t know who won Tuesday night’s feisty debate in New Hampshire, but it seemed to me to be the first face-off that may actually wind up destabilizing the Democratic primary, thanks to some…

No, the billionaire isn’t politically bankrupt because he finished second in Iowa.

Though Hillary Clinton officially won Iowa, she emerges with almost the same number of delegates as (and palpably less momentum than) Bernie Sanders.

I like Mike Bloomberg and his politics, but as someone with a political pulse, I must be honest: This is almost certainly not his year to win the presidency as an independent, and I’m not sure it ever has been.

President Obama’s last State of the Union address wasn’t a great speech.

My mother, a solidly left-wing liberal and casual observer of the New York City political scene, forwarded news of a shooting on a Brooklyn subway platform, the kind of crime that happened all the time in the mid-90s.

Saturday night in New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders came not to bury Hillary Clinton, but to praise her — or something close enough to that.

The movie ads during the CNN Republican debate were for “Concussion,” about head trauma in a contact sport; “The Revenant,” about a man’s struggle for vengeance; and “The Big Short,” about very profitable dishonesty.

Tuesday night’s Republican debate from Milwaukee was a more substantive affair than the debacle in Boulder, and that, for the most part, hurt Donald Trump and Dr.

Jeb Bush didn’t do much in Wednesday night’s debate, and that means the imagined establishment juggernaut is finished.

Hillary Clinton held her own against scrappy upstart Bernie Sanders and the others nipping at her heels in Tuesday night’s Democratic primary debate — but some of what she said could come back to…

Charter school phenom Eva Moskowitz would have to switch her party registration to run for mayor in 2017 because she is persona non grata to the city Democratic establishment.

On Jan. 20, 2017, Donald Trump will take the oath of office for the presidency of the United States.

Let us pretend for a moment that we live in a simpler world, in which all our political coverage is not gasping for air in Trump-infested waters.

CNN wanted a raucous free-for-all, not a sober, moderator-dominated forum.

Mayor de Blasio didn’t create the city’s homelessness problem.

I suppose, if I had a car, I could slap a “Don’t blame me — I voted for Lhota” sticker on the bumper and join the almost giddy pile-on that’s now got 6-foot-5 Bill de Blasio up to his neck in sour negativity.

The unwritten rule in monster movies is not to show the whole monster until at least halfway in — so the audience feels a growing sense of dread.

Not long ago, Joe Biden was a punch line.

Many of the criticisms Mayor de Blasio is hurling at black-car behemoth Uber, whose growth he wants to freeze for a year, also apply to another booming company upending a traditional industry.

In Mayor de Blasio’s eyes, he and his constituents have suffered a long train of abuses courtesy of Gov.

Mayor de Blasio’s explanation of why he agreed to add 1,300 cops to the NYPD — after insisting for months that crime is under control and that the money was much more urgently needed elsewhere — is just not credible.

Mayor de Blasio’s explanation of why he agreed Monday to add 1,300 cops — after insisting for months that crime is under control and that the money was much more urgently needed elsewhere — is just not credible.

A dutiful observer of presidential politics is forced to comment on what we witnessed Tuesday: a piece of performance art masquerading as a campaign launch by a bloviating buffoon who thinks he’s…

Arguing that Donald Trump shouldn’t be President is like arguing that your dentist shouldn’t be an astronaut.

Mayor de Blasio is aching to be a national paragon of progressive values, one whose commitment to slaying the dragon of income inequality inspires politicians across America and drags the Democratic Party to the left.

Mayor de Blasio wants to be clear: He knows better than you, the people who put him in office — at least those who voted in a low-turnout election — that his mayoralty is already transformational…

You can call the guilty plea of former Chris Christie crony David Wildstein, the fourth nail in the coffin of the New Jersey governor’s 2016 presidential ambitions.

It’s a blessing to Democrats that Hillary Clinton is getting slammed now, rather than later, with serious questions about the money that flowed into her family’s charitable foundation when she was secretary of state.

Brooklyn had big names behind its Democratic National Convention bid — more than 100 of them on a host committee unveiled by Mayor de Blasio.

We’re doing it again. We’re already changing the subject.

EVA MOSKOWITZ If you thought you’d heard the loudest skirmishes between charter-school leader Eva Moskowitz and her nemesis, Mayor de Blasio, adjust the volume on your TV set.

Politicians never govern precisely the way they campaigned.

To accurately assess Mayor de Blasio’s first 100 days (perspective: that’s 6.8% of one term, or 3.4% of two), we need to cast our memories way back to 2013.

Put two New Yorkers who disagree on charter schools in a room and get them going, and you could be watching an Israeli and Palestinian in argument on the streets of East Jerusalem.

Charter schools, which educate 70,000 kids in 183 locations throughout New York City, are public schools.

I am white. I have a college degree. I moved to Brooklyn in 1995, when property values were rising rapidly.

There’s still plenty of time for Mayor de Blasio to fold like a busted poker player and give the city’s union workers huge raises, including up to the $7.8 billion in retroactive pay they want from…

Mayor de Blasio’s State of the City speech was stuffed with repackaged campaign rhetoric.

Twenty-six days after his inauguration, or 1.7% of the way into Bill de Blasio’s first term, we’re starting to see New York’s 109th mayor in sharper focus.

The new mayor’s speech was just fine. Some of what led up to it was odious and divisive, more befitting a second-rate protest rally than the inauguration of the leader of the greatest city in the world.

For New Yorkers to understand what’s worth worrying about under Mayor de Blasio, they need to start with a realistic understanding of what shouldn’t be keeping them up late at night.

New York City’s got lots of grating noises most of us would love to tune out: that jackhammer, that police siren, the screeching train rolling into the station.

Like a WWE match, we all know how the tussle between Joe Lhota and Bill de Blasio will end next Tuesday night.

But understand why the onetime front-runner’s campaign for New York mayor imploded, first as Anthony Weiner stormed into the race, then as Weiner’s fall became Bill de Blasio’s rise, then as Bill…

Who would’ve thought the best daytime television of the week would a) not be on TV at all, but on a Daily News/WABC-TV Internet livestream, and b) feature terms like “fiduciary” and “pension returns”?

Over the generations, we’ve bounced from mayor to mayor, each a reaction to his predecessor and a tacit answer to the perceived crisis of the moment.

I’m a Citi Bike founding member, and I’m happy to flaunt my membership fob.

Obama-supporting billionaire Warren Buffett buys 28 newspapers for $344 million, and Twitter barely flutters.

To the extent that policy differences choose the next mayor, the 2013 mayoral race will hinge on distinctions on jobs, public safety and, maybe most of all, education.

Thursday night’s Daily News Mayoral Forum was the first to feature Republican Joe Lhota, the former MTA boss and city budget director, alongside the established Democratic candidates.

There’s an old maxim that when everyone sees something they dislike in a compromise, it must be a good compromise.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Democrats have found their Ronald Reagan.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Which is more powerful: Disgust toward Barack Obama, or distrust of Mitt Romney?

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Mitt Romney entered Monday night’s debate on a political roll.

BOCA RATON, Fla. — The third and final presidential debate, to be held here in South Florida on Monday night, is about foreign policy, a realm in which Republicans are used to having a distinct advantage.

HEMPSTEAD, NY - The fundamentals of his reelection campaign, insists President Obama, are strong.

After his weak performance in Denver, President Obama desperately needs to find his voice.

DANVILLE, Ky. — In the first debate in Denver, President Obama brought a plastic knife to a gunfight.

Vice President Joe Biden has a tough task tonight in his face-off with Rep.

Pronouncements of who won Wednesday night’s debate in Denver dominated the analysis.

FOR MITT ROMNEY, looking presidential on Wednesday night won’t be enough.

LITTLETON, Colo. — Just a few miles away from the site of next Wednesday’s debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney, voters in this Denver suburb know their own strength.

The conventions are over. The helium balloons are deflating.

Back-to-back conventions just force-fed the American people a sampler plate of deep-fried politics that’ll take weeks to get out of our systems.

On Wednesday night, Bill Clinton offered the smartest critique yet of Mitt Romney’s economic agenda — and, more importantly, the most robust defense to date of the choices President Obama has made…

Bill Clinton is immensely popular, and understandably.

Something rare is happening this election year: Much to the dismay of Republican Party leaders, contrary to all their partisan assumptions about GOP strengths, Democrats have the advantage in keeping…

Just as Mitt Romney’s message has settled in, maybe even before, Democrats have the chance to swivel the spotlight back in their direction and make the case for the incumbent President.

Mitt Romney’s challenge Thursday night was to balance the positive and the negative, to rile up the party faithful while winning the trust of some skeptical moderates.

Most of Wednesday night’s convention speeches were duds.

A day after the positive reviews on Paul Ryan’s speechcraft and stagecraft rolled in, we’ve now got a read on the content of his big convention speech.

Ann Romney and Chris Christie’s mission, leading off on the first night of the storm-delayed Republican National Convention, was to score a hit with the American people.

When Mitt Romney steps up to speak in Tampa, he’s going to try hard to look like he’s steady on his feet.

I guess it paid to go to Poland. This is a new Romney ad, aimed transparently at Catholics, that fully embraces the shameful line that the Obama administration “declared war on religion” by daring to…

Mitt Romney’s trip to the United Kingdom, Israel and Poland was to be his introduction to the world, proof to America that he would be a steady hand on the foreign policy tiller.

Mayor Bloomberg came into office more than a decade ago promising bold and relentless reforms to the city’s schools.

The modern nanny state is here to stay, and by and large that’s a happy fact.

So President Obama has evolved on same-sex marriage.

The emerging field of 2013 mayoral contenders is like the cast of a decent sitcom.

The 11 Secret Service agents who were recalled from Colombia, apparently after most of them got mixed up with prostitutes, need a version of that classic talking-to that every grade-school kid gets…

My brother is a smart parent who sends his kids to a public school many Brooklyn parents would give a pinkie, if not a thumb, to get into.

In a 2007 primary debate, the Republican candidates got around to discussing the detention of suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.

So should you feel a strong tug of guilt every time you turn on your iPhone or iPad?

Should Newt Gingrich become the GOP nominee, it is quite possible that President Obama will crush him like a cheap beer can.

After winning the Iowa caucuses and riding high in New Hampshire polls, Mitt Romney is positioned to become the only non-incumbent would-be presidential in modern history to win the first two nominating contests.

Oh, it’s tempting to see Rick Santorum’s late Iowa surge as just another impulsive flirtation by the Republican electorate with a man whose name is not Mitt Romney before the former Massachusetts…

Rick Warren is a liberal-minded devout Christian, one who knew and respected Christopher Hitchens.

The publicity glossies for the 2012 version of “The Great Gatsby” are here, and with it comes the anticipatory squealing.

It’s a long way from full employment — in fact, the share of Americans actively participating in the work force is down to a depressing 64% — but otherwise, Friday’s job report was good news for President Obama.

Let’s stipulate that Herman Cain had already faded from serious consideration in his quest to win the Republican nomination.

Oh, how the 2012 Republican candidates and other critics wished that “leading from behind” – the phrase used by an unnamed White House aide to describe U.S.

Who won the debate? We ask the question each morning after, because this is what we do now, as though the winner gets closer to the playoffs.

It’s tough to write an appreciation of Steve Jobs.

Another week, another supposed savior waiting in the wings, ready to rescue Republicans from the possibility of four more years of President Obama.

Another week, another supposed savior waiting in the wings, ready to rescue Republicans from the possibility of four more years of President Obama.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has been on the offensive in recent days, hitting Texas Gov.

Here’s what Republicans should do if they really want to take the White House from President Obama in 2012: They should pass the entire package he outlined Thursday night, down to the last detail.

So obsessed are we with the microscopic machinations of Washington politics and popular culture, we frequently fail to take note of slow, seismic changes taking place all around us.

There they were, gathered in the site of the first 2012 presidential contest, telling Iowans and Americans that they’re the ones to beat President Obama at the polls next year.

President Obama wound up on the offensive in the debt debate by accident.

On Wednesday, Rudy Giuliani did the rounds.

Anthony Weiner will be back, and he’ll be back before too long.

The first GOP debate in New Hampshire Monday night was a fine showing for ex-Massachusetts Gov.

If there’s no other shoe - or pair of underwear - that drops over the next two years, Rep.

President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were sitting just feet apart in the White House Friday, but it seemed like miles.

“Leading from behind”: That was the unfortunate phrase spoken by an Obama adviser with respect to America’s coalition-driven military actions in Libya.

Over the past two days, I’ve heard a number of people I love and respect express discomfort that we are in some cases loudly cheering the death of Osama Bin Laden.

The critics say Barack Obama is our first “post-American President” - the one who doesn’t believe in the war on terrorism or in American exceptionalism.

Since Donald Trump pledged to release his financial records after President Obama released his birth certificate, and since of course the reality show starlatan is a man of his word, we should get to…

One of the most fascinating cultural paradigms of the past decade is the “long tail” - the notion that, in an increasingly fragmented world, in which we’re all capable of getting personalized news…

President Obama is going to win the debt debate with House Republicans, for one simple reason: As troubled as Americans are about the ocean of red ink in which we’re treading, as ready as they are to…

IT WAS half sad, half funny. After weeks of failing to reach an agreement on a budget, after getting the country all worked up about a shutdown, the speaker of the House and Senate majority leader…

Five years ago, momentum to expand public school choice, hold educators more accountable for results through testing and chip away at the power of the teachers union seemed almost unstoppable.

News that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be tried in military court at Guantanamo Bay, not in civilian court in Manhattan, cuts two ways for the commander-in-chief.

Sarah Palin is giving low marks to President Obama’s hyped Libya speech, saying “the Obama doctrine is still full of chaos and questions.

Just a few years ago, we had a President who valued clarity so dearly that he labeled three utterly different countries, presenting drastically different security problems, an “axis of evil.” Didn’t…

Some of President Obama’s critics have it right.

The likes of Newt Gingrich, who apparently learned nothing during eight years of George W.

It’s a peculiarity of America today that we generally accept as consistent political candidates who make this pair of statements: 1.

Another week, another trio of things to be outraged about.

After a study indicated that American kids were less physically fit than their European counterparts, it was Dwight Eisenhower who started the President’s Council on Youth Fitness.

Our Founding Fathers had brilliance, courage and vision.

After my last column, in which I argued that conservatives influence the way we talk about politics more than liberals do -- and asserted that this was proof that the supposed liberal domination of…

It’s hard to know where to begin in dismantling the Republican canard that Democrats control the media.

President Obama faced one of the trickiest tasks in State of the Union memory Tuesday night: convincing the country he’s serious about attacking $14 trillion in debt - while putting forward ambitious…

Rudy Giuliani told CNBC’s Larry Kudlow last night he is “absolutely” considering a run for President in 2012.

The left wing of the Democratic party soon won’t have Sen.

Anyone looking honestly at the facts will acknowledge that Jared Lee Loughner is just plain crazy, and it’s absurd to say voices on the right were standing behind him, whispering encouragement to pull the trigger.

Reports say former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is considering jumping into the underwhelming GOP field -- Haley Barbour!

Andrew Cuomo, son of a famous orator, delivered his first State of the State address with the support of a somewhat goofy PowerPoint presentation.

It was Mario Cuomo who famously said, “Campaign in poetry.

When incoming Schools Chancellor Cathie Black visited the Daily News editorial board last week, it was clear she was already embroiled in the first big conflict of her tenure.

News flash: Washington can be hyperpartisan.

It took a NASA news conference about the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe to remind us that the population of America itself lives on two different planets.

Few men who made their names as political moderates are as uncomfortable with compromise as Mayor Bloomberg, who’s just not used to having to bend in a city where he’s basically the only political game in town.

If the “anti-business” Obama administration’s agenda - passing health care reform, trying to bring tax rates for the wealthiest 2% back to pre-Bush levels - is really killing capitalism, someone…

After the latest round of cheap family drama, how could Sarah Palin possibly position herself to go toe-to-toe with President Obama, as she appears to be gearing up to try to do?

The game was up with one word: “patience.” That’s what Cathie Black asked for the day Mayor Bloomberg tapped her to be New York City’s schools chancellor.

If Democrats know what’s good for them, if they really care about connecting to the beleaguered middle class, they ought to react with strength and clarity to the embarrassing new report that federal…

George W. Bush never was a bad soul, he was just portrayed as one on TV.

MSNBC’s suspension of Keith Olbermann for making campaign donations without the approval of MSNBC brass is wise.

Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, will either be regarded as the end of the Tea Party’s adolescence or the beginning of its decline.

It’s crass political analysis, given the fact that lives could have been lost, but let’s say it anyway: After his very shaky handling of attempted underpants bomber Umar Abdulmutallab and his…

The thousands gathered at Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity were mostly well-intentioned Democrats bracing themselves for the fact that Republicans, including Tea Party-infused right-wingers, are…

President Obama hit all his cues on “The Daily Show” - no surprise there.

Last night on “The Daily Show,” in response to Jon Stewart’s persistent questions about whether President Obama overpromised and underdelivered, Obama made the case that he hasn’t been timid - that…

President Obama should make the most of his “Daily Show” appearance on Wednesday night - charming the pants off Jon Stewart and the crowd, as he did when he showed up there two years ago.

NPR, a network for which I have the utmost respect, made a huge mistake by firing Juan Williams.

It’s not just an ad campaign. It’s a warning for all to heed.

There’s a second lie wrapped inside Newt Gingrich’s awful, racist slander that only a “Kenyan, anti-colonial” worldview can explain President Obama.

Say this for President Obama and the economy-boosting ideas he is unveiling this week: Better stimu-late than never.

The leader speaking from the Oval Office on Tuesday night was not the anti-war candidate of 2008.

It’s official: New York’s teachers unions ain’t what they used to be.

As friends and family have migrated to the iPhone or to various Android smartphones, I’ve stuck with my BlackBerry, through at least five models.

Barack Obama didn’t need to step into the smoldering controversy over the so-called - mis-named - Ground Zero mosque.

Pundits are asking the question: Why have President Obama’s approval ratings fallen into the mid-40s?

‘The price of greatness is responsibility,” said Winston Churchill.

The New York Knicks and New Jersey Nets aren’t the only ones holding out for a hero.

They’re already saying it: Barack Obama’s is a failed presidency.

Around six months in, President Obama’s supporters came to terms with the fact that he couldn’t walk on water.

If you’re already irritated by BlackBerry, iPhone and Twitter-distracted people who can’t seem to look you in the eye and give you their undivided attention - and I am sometimes guilty as charged…

Fifteen years after his father left the office, eight years after his own bid for governor went down in flames and long after his rivals jumped into the fray, Andrew Cuomo has declared his plan to…

With a straight face yesterday, Rush Limbaugh whacked Elena Kagan as a pure academic idealist radical.

Right now it looks like there’s no light at the end of the fiscal tunnel for mass transit in New York.

I have only just begun to play with my iPad – the UPS man came at 12:15 p.m.

President Obama’s prescription for reform may not alleviate that squeeze, but at least Democrats have made a good-faith effort to do something.

The Republicans, smarting and sulking after their huge loss on health care, are saying all manner of childish things – including: The Democrats own the problem.

The other night, I went with a female friend - she came highly recommended through a mutual acquaintance - to see a movie.

I’m almost done reading “The Death of American Virtue,” Ken Gormley’s immensely detailed and intensely depressing retelling of the runaway Whitewater-Paula Jones-Monica Lewinsky saga that consumed…

As the health care debate enters what is, pray to the political gods, the home stretch, both sides have made massive mistakes that have permanently damaged their credibility with the public.

Witnessing Thursday’s health care bipartisan summit was like throwing two long-isolated tribes into a room and asking them to join forces.

He is Midwestern and good-looking and moderate.

You’ve probably heard it many times by now: Democracy as we know it, or as we once knew it in some mythical age, is endangered because, in one of the worst decisions in its history, the Supreme Court…

Of late, the only thing louder than the shouting from conservatives filling Barack Obama’s big right ear has been the screaming from liberals filling his left one.

I’ve been checking out the new Google phone, the Nexus One, and I have to say I’m a bit heartsick about having to send back the loaner I got to review.

I hereby order Sarcasm Inc. to cease and desist from actions that threaten to deprive me of the ability to earn honest wages from my hard work and intellectual property¡ The Michigan-based company is…

Jay will pay for this. If the Peacock plays chicken with Conan and forces him to take the 12:05 show or walk, he’ll walk.

It was one of the most consistent critiques of George W.

Joe Lieberman is not the most conservative U.S.

The bill that passed the Senate Thursday is a monstrosity.

This week, a stunt by Sen. Tom Coburn threw the Senate into a tizzy.

No matter how much you hate his health care reform plan, no matter how deeply you doubt his Afghanistan war strategy, give President Obama this: In Oslo Thursday, he gave a speech for history.

President Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday.

Tiger Woods deserves much more than a golf clap for having the guts to take a clear, strong swing at the new Puritanism.

If you’re morally opposed to putting Khalid Shaikh Mohammed through a military tribunal and believe that Attorney General Eric Holder‘s decision to try him in civilian court is a great expression of…

It’s been a good year for McDonald’s. Their coffee drink challenge to Starbucks took off, their breakfast business is booming and other changes to the menu are paying dividends in the tough economy.

The MSM is dying, they say. Good riddance to the mainstream media, they say.

The Norwegian judges were crazy to award Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize less than 10 months into his presidency.

In one fell swoop Friday, the Nobel Prize jury made a mockery of the world’s most revered honor and handed Barack Obama’s opponents a great talking point.

Brace yourself for the latest and possibly most threatening in the long line of technological innovations to invade and corrupt ordinary, quiet, subjective human consciousness.

Long after the 98-minute fever dream of Libya‘s Moammar Khadafy, with his warning of flu viruses cooked up in Western labs, came the main event of the UN General Assembly: the deadly serious diatribe…

Let us assume that 5% of the country is racist.

There are two kinds of Barack Obama speeches: sweeping statements of principle and specific arguments about public policy.

In the highest-stakes speech in a short political career already filled with high-stakes speeches, President Obama is set to address Congress next week to refocus his health care reform push.

Rudy Giuliani could make a great candidate for governor - one who’d wipe the floor with David Paterson and be an even-odds bet against Andrew Cuomo.

The purveyors of conventional wisdom used to love dumping on George H.W.

Decades of Presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama being the last two, have been elected on the promise of bringing America together.

My fellow Americans, let’s be honest. I’m running out of levers to pull to convince you of the virtues of health care reform.

This one was predictable. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said that if President Obama loses on health care, it will be his Waterloo.

Barack Obama, soon to be appearing at weddings and bar mitzvahs.

President Obama is in a terrible bind on health care.

Is all infidelity created equal? No, but the moral hierarchy may be different than you think.

The official new sticking point in the fight over health care reform is the “public option,” a taxpayer-sponsored medical insurance plan that Democrats want to offer as an option alongside a menu of…

To the long list of casualties of political polarization, are we about to add late night talk shows?

Barack Obama gives a seminal, highly anticipated speech to bridge a festering divide.

It’s a beautiful image: By the thousands, Latino boys and especially girls inspired by Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s ascension to the nation’s highest court start envisioning a better future - and cracking…

Perhaps it was Orwellian for Barack Obama to stand in the National Archives, where the nation’s founding documents are safeguarded, and defend national security policies that leave many pillars of…

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It was the very image of the strange-bedfellow triumvirate standing outside the White House yesterday after an audience with the President - Mayor Bloomberg, Al Sharpton and Newt Gingrich - that dominated most stories.

With a former member of the Congressional Black Caucus leading the nation, the CBC could be wielding historic influence.

Barack Obama is a very popular President.

Barack Obama won the 2008 election in no small part because a critical mass of American voters were exhausted by 16 years of petty sniping about every idiotic thing under the sun.

In his education policy speech last month, President Obama, with great fanfare, talked of improving student achievement by transforming the way teachers are trained and paid “in up to 150 more school…

AS ECONOMIC March Madness gripped Washington, there was the President of the United States on Wednesday revealing his NCAA picks to ESPN, on a whiteboard complete with the presidential seal.

On Wednesday, as economic March Madness gripped Washington, there was the President of the United States revealing his NCAA picks to ESPN, on a whiteboard complete with the presidential seal.

On Thursday’s front page, the New York Times revealed that President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team, apparently intent on avoiding personal scandals and ethics embarrassments, is requiring…

Up Arrow: Obama leads in unlikely states including North Carolina, Nevada, Virginia and Colorado.

Up Arrow: Obama remains ahead in Florida and Ohio in new polling.

Up Arrow: Obama fends off a barrage of McCain attacks in the final debate, staying on message.

Barack Obama Up Arrow: Obama gains in polling, getting a lift from the credit meltdown and the first debate.

Up Arrow: Obama turns a risky moment to his advantage, urging a bipartisan bailout - but saying the debate showdown must go on.

Barack Obama Up Arrow: Obama has been praying for an election that’s a referendum on the Bush economy - and now he’s laughing all the way to the failing investment bank.

Up Arrow: Obama reclaims the offensive and reinforces his brand as a new kind of politician by going after McCain’s “pig in lipstick” attack.

Up Arrow: Obama and Biden are classy and clear when the media circus engulfs Bristol Palin.

Up Arrow: Obama officially gets the nomination.

Up Arrow: Obama soon unveils his veep and BFF, via txt.

Middle Ground: Obama strikes a smart deal with Hillary, assuring that her name will be placed in nomination in Denver.

Down Arrow: Obama accuses Bush and McCain of saying “he’s got a funny name” and “doesn’t look like all those other Presidents on the dollar bills.” It’s a counterfeit note.

Up Arrow: Obama’s overseas trip produces an album of enviable images with generals, rank-and-file troops and world leaders - and no real missteps.

Up Arrow: Obama gives a big speech on Iraq and Afghanistan.

Up Arrow: Obama, who was on his heels in recent weeks explaining exactly whether he’d stick to his preset 16-month withdrawal timetable, gets an assist from the Iraqis, who now look ready to push for a firm U.S.

UP: Obama says he’ll rebrand and expand Bush’s faith-based initiative; lays out an ambitious national service plan; and gives a big speech reaffirming his patriotism.

UP: Obama will hold hands with Hillary (but expect no fist bumps) in Unity, N.H., Friday.

DOWN: Obama opts out of public campaign financing, despite having repeatedly promised to play by the rules.

Down Arrow: Obama picks a stinker, Jim Johnson, for his veep vetting team.

Hillary (all down arrows) Hillary is not going home with the championship belt - and finally bowed to that reality Thursday, two days after delivering a head-scratching primary night speech.

CLINTON DOWN: Hillary, already in a hole, keeps digging - using Bobby Kennedy’s murder as an example of how volatile primaries can be.

Hillary Up Arrow: Hillary gets another huge win in a poor, mostly white state - Kentucky this time - and can keep making her (fading) case to be the nominee.

HILLARY CLINTON ARROW UP: Hillary is West Virginia’s mountain mama after a commanding win over Obama there.

HILLARY CLINTON ARROW DOWN: Hillary loses North Carolina big and barely ekes out a victory in Indiana.

Hillary Up arrow: Hillary can kick back and enjoy the entertainment: At long last, after delicious days of damage, Obama divorces his former pastor.

Clinton Passes massive test; Obama may have reached his crest Hillary Up Arrow: Hillary rolls in Pennsylvania, almost hitting the magic 10-point margin.

HILLARY UP ARROW Hillary scores a clear win in a debate, for the first time in a long time.

ARROW DOWN: Hillary fires - er, demotes - top strategist Mark Penn after he plays footsie with Colombia on free trade.

HILLARY Down Arrow Hillary gets caught in a lie about her ‘96 trip to Bosnia.

HILLARY Down Arrow Hillary almost certainly won’t have more delegates by the end - so she needs to get past Obama in the popular vote total.

HILLARY Down Arrow Hillary distances herself from Geraldine Ferraro after the ex-veep nominee says Obama’s gotten a boost from being black.

HILLARY Up Arrow Hillary resurrects her campaign with wins in Texas and Ohio.

§§ HILLARY §§ Down Arrow Hillary had to win Tuesday’s debate.

If he rides the wave all the way to the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama could do himself a huge favor by picking a prominent New Yorker to round out a dream ticket.

§§ HILLARY §§ Down Arrow Hillary doesn’t just lose Wisconsin.

The Mega-matchup Hillary is reeling from eight straight losses that give Obama 22 of 35 total states - one hell of a slugging percentage - and a lead in delegates.

§§ HILLARY §§ Up Arrow Hillary can’t quite claim victory on Super Tuesday, but she does stem the Obama tide with solid wins in Massachusetts and California – and dominación of the Hispanic vote.

§§ HILLARY §§ Down Arrow Hillary takes Florida – which Dems had agreed wouldn’t count – and then gloats like it’s a legitimate victory.

Opinions Editor Josh Greenman scores how New York’s presidential contenders – Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani – did this week.

§§ HILLARY §§ Middle Ground Hillary agrees to a truce with Obama after days of tone-deaf, destructive tussling on race.

Opinions Editor Josh Greenman scores how New York’s presidential contenders – Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani – did this week.

Opinions editor Josh Greenman scores how New York presidential contenders – Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani – did this week.