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NAPOLITANO: Public safety and the presidency

President Donald Trump argued last week that as a result of the federal enhancement of police work in Washington, D.C., the city has gone in four days from being the most dangerous in America to being the safest. He cited no evidence but relied apparently on his own observations and anecdotal ...

STOSSEL: A new addiction!

I am addicted! To my phone. I check an email and before I realize it, I'm watching TikTok videos: lions fight hyenas, military dads reunite with kids, athletes do amazing things ... I look up, and an hour has passed. I've wasted time, ignored my family and friends, and accomplished ...

Guest opinion: Please excuse us; we’re broken

When our daughter was young, we lived in Houston, Texas. Not wanting to lose touch with family and friends who all missed our little Catherine (not so much us, apparently), I created a website where I posted our doings that month. I didn’t consider the fact that there might be some things ...

GUEST OPINION: Broken windows and broken politics

When I used to live in Colorado, I noticed a strange pattern at trailheads. Some had colorful piles of bagged dog poop stacked around the signposts, while others were perfectly clean. What was striking was the absence of in-between cases: There were either a lot of bags or none at all. I ...

HARROP: Mamdani understands neither economics nor New York City

Why do the world's poor make a beeline for New York City? It is now home to over 3 million immigrants, the largest influx coming from the Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, Mexico, Guyana, Ecuador, Bangladesh, Haiti and India. How can these overwhelmingly poor new arrivals stay if no one can ...