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Henry Kissinger celebrated his 100th birthday on May 27, proving once again his remarkable staying power as one of America’s most well-known and influential foreign policy players in modern times. Presidents and other leaders of U.S. national security seek his counsel even today. But his Machiavellian legacy, which continues to shape America’s foreign policy, is nothing to celebrate, and we continue to pay a price for it. Kissinger, who served as both secretary of state and national security adviser under President Richard Nixon and his successor Gerald Ford, embodies the impunity of the forei...
Chicago Tribune
Compare and contrast, please. Wednesday in Upstate New York, Nauman Hussain was sentenced to 5-15 years in prison for his role in the October 2018 deaths of 20 people after the brakes of an enormous stretch limousine failed. Hussain wasn’t driving the car. Rather, he rented out the vehicle — and a jury found evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that before doing so, he failed to ensure it was safe to drive. For that, he was convicted of 20 counts of second-degree manslaughter. In Manhattan Tuesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that members of the Sackler family, the billionaires who...
New York Daily News
There are many measures of how well a city promotes safety and justice: crime rates, relations between police and the community, the treatment of those jailed and more. An essential indicator that gets far too little attention is clearance rates — the percentage of offenses where cops make an arrest. And it’s worrying that the NYPD rates have fallen sharply. A crime unsolved is justice undone, a victim or surviving family still treading water in a swamp of fear and disillusionment. The more serious the crime, the more important that cops figure out who did it and courts then hold the perpetrat...
New York Daily News
The war against the great American tradition of a liberal arts college education — rich in the arts and literature, asking life's deep philosophical questions — feels like it's being waged right now on more fronts than the battle lines of World War II. The assault on learning for learning's sake has even hit the presidential campaign trial. In Iowa last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — avatar of the far right's so-called war on woke in the university classroom — told an audience in rural Salix that as president he'd put colleges on the hook for their students defaulting on their loans. That w...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Sugar in the U.S. costs nearly twice as much as elsewhere in the world, raising prices for candy, baked goods, ice cream and more. The reason is no mystery. A government farm-subsidy program in effect since the 1930s blocks cheaper imports and controls the price and quantity of sugar in our marketplace. As in the days of Soviet central planning, the program benefits a few at the expense of the many. The main culprits? A small group of domestic sugar processors, sugar cane growers in Florida, Louisiana and Texas, and sugar beet producers in a handful of mostly northern states. Lining the pocket...
Chicago Tribune
The conservative wing objected to the dismissal of property rights. The liberals focused on egregious fines. But despite their different reasonings, the members of the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found in favor of a woman who got nothing when the government seized her condo because of $2,300 worth of unpaid property taxes and pocketed all proceeds from the sale, far more than the woman owed. And you thought the high court’s justices didn’t agree on anything. The court’s decision, announced May 24, involved the case of Hennepin County v. Geraldine Tyler. The justices correctly dismissed an e...
Chicago Tribune
The NYCLU has taken Rockland and Orange counties to federal court for their emergency orders blocking NYC from temporarily putting up migrants in local hotels. Let’s hope for a swift victory. If you’re wondering why the policies are so self-evidently wrong, here’s a helpful exercise: imagine if the counties had issued practically identical orders, but, instead of applying to migrants, they applied to some specific ethnic or religious group. Let’s try an excerpt from Rockland’s emergency order: “No municipality may make contracts with persons, businesses, or entities doing business within the C...
New York Daily News
When Alexander Hamilton, as the first Treasury secretary, starting in 1789, began issuing debt to borrow on the good name of the new government of the United States until now, there has never been a default on its loans. Ever. That’s 234 years of paying its obligations despite a Civil War, a Great Depression and a couple of world wars. The long streak was going to stop tomorrow, X-date, said Janet Yellen — Hamilton’s successor as the 78th secretary — when the cash would be exhausted and creditors would have gone unpaid. That was the prescription urged by Dr. Donald Trump, becoming a deadbeat n...
New York Daily News
Would we really risk the catastrophe of a debt default because we think that some citizens who are receiving food stamps may not be working hard enough? It appears that we would: One of the puzzling priorities for Republicans during negotiations over the debt ceiling increase was stricter work requirements for welfare recipients, a point that they won: Under the new rules able-bodied adults without children who receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program must work or participate in a training program for at least 80 hours per month until they reach the age of 54, an inc...
Tribune News Service
Joe Biden had much experience in foreign policy before being elected president, but he is certainly no Richard Nixon. Although Nixon had to resign because of domestic corruption linked to the U.S. war in Southeast Asia, he was masterful in driving a wedge between the two communist great powers—Maoist China and the Soviet Union—to achieve more peaceful relations with both countries. Nixon cleverly created a competition between the two countries to better relations with the United States or be isolated on the wrong side of the triangle. Regrettably, Biden, despite his prior foreign policy chops,...
Tribune News Service
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