Letters to the Editor | Jan. 5, 2026
The cost of ‘free’ money So, what would you do if you received a phone call from someone claiming a way for you to receive “free money”? You’d hang up,…
Pa. has a human trafficking problem. That’s why Because exists.
Earlier this year, a statewide task force arrested more than a dozen men in a Central Pennsylvania sting operation targeting human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of minors. The headlines…
Nurses should be supported, not undercut and disparaged
The more than four million registered nurses practicing in the United States and the patients and families who relied on their care found themselves unexpectedly challenged by the federal government…
Mamdani’s A+ on mayoral control: A welcome flip-flop to the correct position
Today is the first day for New York City public schools back from winter break, with a new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and a new schools chancellor, Kamar Samuels. And what…
Lou Gerstner & corporate good: He saved IBM and showed how business can help build society
Lou Gerstner IBM’s iconic former CEO passed away last weekend at 83 years of age. He will be remembered for generations for rescuing IBM from near demise when its value…
Mamdani reverses course on mayoral control over NYC schools as he appoints Kamar Samuels chancellor
As he named a new schools chancellor Wednesday, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani reversed course on a key but controversial campaign promise: to end mayoral control of the New York City public…
I was undocumented & then commissioner
On a recent visit to Manhattan’s federal immigration courthouse, I sat beside a young child, and his mother, as a judge explained that the federal government’s representative across the room…
Mike Bloomberg’s excellent 12 years as NYC mayor
Zohran Mamdani will take the oath office at midnight and become New York’s next mayor, after the drift of the Bill de Blasio years and the scandals of Eric Adams.…
The city’s crime rate has fallen dramatically. It didn’t happen by chance.
For years, Philadelphia, like many American cities, grappled with historic levels of violence brought on by the upheaval of the pandemic. Today, a very different story is unfolding. Violent crime…
Mamdani to pick Manhattan superintendent Kamar Samuels as public school chancellor
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is expected to elevate Kamar Samuels, a local uptown Manhattan superintendent, to chancellor of the New York City public schools on Wednesday, sources confirmed to the Daily…