10.09.2020 Columns Guest Spot: Every patriot should be anti-fascist The sitting president has made it clear that he will not commit to a peaceful transfer of power should the voters deny him a second term. New reporting from...
07.10.2020 Columns Guest Column: The excuses don’t add up on bounties It has been reported that Russia paid bounties to the Taliban for the killing of American and coalition servicemen and women. Some have argued that the intelligence is not...
06.28.2020 Columns Guest Spot: For 111 days, we watched and admired I couldn’t hold back the tears last Friday as Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave his 111th — and final — daily press briefing during the COVID-19 crisis. He promised that...
06.15.2020 Columns Guest Spot: After 50 years, where are my former students now? In 1970, I was a newly minted third-grade teacher in Bushwick, Brooklyn. My students were Black and Latinx, living in crowded apartments, relying on school meals to hold back...
05.16.2020 Columns Guest Spot: Amid pandemic, another threat looms large for next generation “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” Well, young friends, you’re in trouble. No, it isn’t coronavirus that will make your...
04.09.2020 Columns Guest Column: We must all hold onto our humanity Para leer en español, haga clic aquí A tweet from the Dalai Lama caught my attention: “A deep awareness of the goodness of human beings, that they are essentially...
03.17.2020 Columns Guest Spot: Home from Italy, and staying at home Last month my traveling companion and I were in Milan when the first cases of the coronavirus were reported in northern Italy. We responded by modifying our itinerary to...
12.22.2019 Columns Guest Spot: Zeldin doesn’t support lower property taxes Our representative in Congress is supposed to listen to the working people of Long Island and put our interests first. Last week, Rep. Lee Zeldin once again failed to...
