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Trump’s questionable support for Putin: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 24, 2025

The Issue: President Trump’s support for Vladimir Putin in his strategy to end the war in Ukraine.

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New York businesses get shafted as Albany showers $5.5B, endless aid on Idaho’s Micron

Every company in the state should apply “the Micron test” to identify all the ways New York makes it artificially difficult to do business here.

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Ken Girardin

The Pentagon must cut $50B of waste — put this weapon on the chopping block

The only way to slice the $50 billion Pete Hegseth has ordered out of the Defense Department budget is to get rid of weapons programs that no...

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Mark Montgomery

Trump’s Justice Dept. vows to end college affirmative action — here’s where to start

New AG Pam Bondi will require compliance with the 2023 Supreme Court decision that banned affirmative action in college admissions — which schools...

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Renu Mukherjee

How USAID squandered billions in Haiti and around the globe

How USAID squandered billions in Haiti and around the globe

DOGE wants to see where our tax dollars go, and we should let them. No surprise that the “government industrial complex” will resist every effort...

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Paul Vallas

Doctors for the uber-rich and more: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 23, 2025

Doctors for the uber-rich and more: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 23, 2025

Posh doctors Thank you to The Post for highlighting the growth of concierge medicine, a dangerous trend in New York City and across the country...

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Why voters and courts are supporting a bureaucratic slim-down

Why voters and courts are supporting a bureaucratic slim-down

If you beamed in from Mars, you could learn everything about the state of the West and its politics through a split screen last week.    On one...

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Julian Epstein

Why all eyes are on Egypt during the Israel-Hamas cease-fire — and how its own ‘Gaza’ problem could soon emerge

Why all eyes are on Egypt during the Israel-Hamas cease-fire — and how its own ‘Gaza’ problem could soon emerge

As the Israel-Hamas cease-fire arrives at its pivotal second phase, Egypt has emerged as the unlikely focal point for the next stage of the...

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Asaf Romirowsky

Michael Goodwin: Trump reveals how White House meeting with Hochul went after prez’s admin axes NYC congestion pricing

President Donald Trump described his Friday meeting as not budging as to what Gov. Kathy Hochul presented to him on the effects of congestion...

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Michael Goodwin

Mr. President: Putin is THE dictator and 10 Ukraine-Russia war truths we ignore at our peril 

Mr. President: Putin is THE dictator and 10 Ukraine-Russia war truths we ignore at our peril 

This has been a dizzying and disorienting week in international diplomacy. One with wild implications for Ukraine, the future of America’s standing...

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Douglas Murray

Hegseth’s new Afghan probe risks dragging the Pentagon down a political rabbit hole

Hegseth’s new Afghan probe risks dragging the Pentagon down a political rabbit hole

When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new investigation this week into the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan...

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Jonathan Sweet, Mark Toth

No going back: The left will fail in trying to reverse Trump’s DEI death sentence

No going back: The left will fail in trying to reverse Trump’s DEI death sentence

Ding dong, DEI is dead! But what will replace it? Democrats will try to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. But...

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Deroy Murdock

Hochul says she won’t remove Mayor Adams from office: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 22, 2025

Hochul says she won’t remove Mayor Adams from office: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 22, 2025

The Issue: Gov. Hochul’s move to implement new oversight measures to monitor Mayor Adams. The only dictator in this sordid mess surrounding Mayor...

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Trump’s ‘Garden of Heroes,’ including black Americans, won’t be in New York — thanks to the #Resistance

Trump’s ‘Garden of Heroes,’ including black Americans, won’t be in New York — thanks to the #Resistance

Speaking at a Black History event Thursday in the White House, President Donald Trump praised the memory of Prince Estabrook, a slave and...

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Seth Barron

How Trump can get himself out of his Ukrainian pickle — and end the war as promised

How Trump can get himself out of his Ukrainian pickle — and end the war as promised

Recent moves by the Trump administration have called into question 11 years of US opposition to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. They’ve raised...

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John Herbst

Mr. President: Putin is THE dictator and 9 other Ukraine-Russia war truths we ignore at our peril 

Mr. President: Putin is THE dictator and 9 other Ukraine-Russia war truths we ignore at our peril 

This has been a dizzying and disorienting week in international diplomacy. One with wild implications for Ukraine, the future of America’s standing...

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Douglas Murray

Hamas shows world why Gaza is beyond saving

Hamas shows world why Gaza is beyond saving

Their faces. So young. So beautiful. Frozen in photographs, they look out — smiling and innocent. Curious about the future. Hours and days, weeks...

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Andrea Peyser

Trump kills congestion pricing: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 21, 2025

Trump kills congestion pricing: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 21, 2025

The Issue: The federal Transportation Department revoked its approval of NY’s congestion-pricing scheme. The editorial board’s points about the...

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Adrienne Adams is in thrall to the antisemitic left — and unfit to be our mayor

Adrienne Adams is in thrall to the antisemitic left — and unfit to be our mayor

Adrienne Adams, the current New York City Council speaker, will soon jump into this year’s mayoral race, rumor has it. Adams, who is about to be...

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Hannah E. Meyers

Misinformation alert — RFK Jr. keeps peddling his detestable autism lies

Misinformation alert — RFK Jr. keeps peddling his detestable autism lies

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spread many detestable theories in his life, but none is more detestable than his scaremongering over autism and...

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David Harsanyi

Miranda Devine: The self-described party of ‘democracy’ wants — yet again — to kill democracy to save it

Miranda Devine: The self-described party of ‘democracy’ wants — yet again — to kill democracy to save it

The hard left of the Democratic Party is trying to force Gov. Kathy Hochul to fire Mayor Eric Adams because it thinks he might help the Trump...

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Miranda Devine

Best of the Babylon Bee: How to tell if Elon Musk is your kid’s dad and more hilarious headlines

Best of the Babylon Bee: How to tell if Elon Musk is your kid’s dad and more hilarious headlines

Every week, The Post will bring you our picks of the best one-liners and stories from satirical site the Babylon Bee to take the edge off Hump Day....

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The Babylon Bee

Trump’s Russia-friendly peace talks: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 20, 2025

Trump’s Russia-friendly peace talks: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 20, 2025

The Issue: President Trump’s recent remarks about ending the war in Ukraine. As a staunch critic of President Trump, I was amazed by your...

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David Blaine is on the hunt for sickos in new series: ‘I’m inspired by the impossible’

David Blaine is on the hunt for sickos in new series: ‘I’m inspired by the impossible’

Magician David Blaine is having fellow prestidigitators — not just plain everyday garden-variety wackos — hunting worldwide way-out sickos,...

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Cindy Adams

Trump risks repeating Biden’s Afghanistan disaster by appeasing Putin

Trump risks repeating Biden’s Afghanistan disaster by appeasing Putin

If Donald Trump acts on the sentiments he expressed this week, he is poised to usher in a dark new world order and blow up his own legacy. The...

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Isaac Schorr

Europe finally gets the US memo: Pony up and partner in your own defense

Europe finally gets the US memo: Pony up and partner in your own defense

Europe has been warned, and warned again. Still, it has been reduced to a near-fainting fit — and, in the case of one German official, actual tears...

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Rich Lowry

Pam Bondi’s ‘new DOJ’ has slam-dunk case against NY for shielding illegal aliens

Pam Bondi’s ‘new DOJ’ has slam-dunk case against NY for shielding illegal aliens

New York state is battling a Trump administration lawsuit for “prioritizing illegal aliens” over the safety of Americans. New York City should...

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Betsy Mccaughey

Meghan Markle’s latest maneuver is an insult to actual lifestyle gurus like Martha Stewart and Joanna Gaines

Meghan Markle’s latest maneuver is an insult to actual lifestyle gurus like Martha Stewart and Joanna Gaines

There she goes again. This week, Meghan Markle introduced the newest name of her lifestyle brand — As Ever. It might be the perfect title for a...

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Kirsten Fleming

Trump and FDR agree: presidents can fire at will under the Constitution

Trump and FDR agree: presidents can fire at will under the Constitution

President Donald Trump likes to fire people, and he resents congressional constraints on that presidential prerogative. While Trump’s opponents may...

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Jacob Sullum

Brooklyn’s depraved pro-Hamas fiends back the slaughter of babies

Brooklyn’s depraved pro-Hamas fiends back the slaughter of babies

On Tuesday night, anti-Israel agitators descended on the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park in Brooklyn, ostensibly to protest a...

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Bethany Mandel

There’s nothing unusual, or wrong, with deal Justice offered Mayor Adams

There’s nothing unusual, or wrong, with deal Justice offered Mayor Adams

The Trump justice department acted within its constitutional authority to drop the prosecution of Mayor Adams. The president, through his attorney...

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Alan Dershowitz

GOP club president pushed out over Barron Trump remarks hits back: ‘It’s an uphill battle being a Republican at NYU’

GOP club president pushed out over Barron Trump remarks hits back: ‘It’s an uphill battle being a Republican at NYU’

After resigning over her comments about Barron Trump — remarks she believes were taken out of context — the former president of NYU’s College...

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Rikki Schlott

Trump is making Europe squirm — to force a lasting peace in Ukraine

Trump is making Europe squirm — to force a lasting peace in Ukraine

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and a team of negotiators met Tuesday with their Russian counterparts in Riyadh, unthawing US-Russian relations in a...

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Peter Rough

Michael Goodwin: Gov. Hochul’s cowardice is on full display as she surrenders to noisy anti-Adams, anti-Trump crowds

Michael Goodwin: Gov. Hochul’s cowardice is on full display as she surrenders to noisy anti-Adams, anti-Trump crowds

Gov. Kathy Hochul falls short on governing skills, but there is one area where she’s the absolute top of the heap: No politician shrinks faster in...

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Michael Goodwin

Timid Hochul’s inaction risks havoc as wildcat prison strikes spread

Timid Hochul’s inaction risks havoc as wildcat prison strikes spread

A central provision of New York state law — its prohibition on public-employee strikes — is at risk of breaking into pieces, as Gov. Hochul...

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Ken Girardin

Dem calls for Adams’ resignation: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 19, 2025

Dem calls for Adams’ resignation: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 19, 2025

The Issue: Calls to remove Mayor Adams after the Justice Department dropped charges against him. In addition to making a mockery out of “nobody is...

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Men today are all about plastic surgery — next they’ll be after your wardrobe

Men today are all about plastic surgery — next they’ll be after your wardrobe

Enough canonizing footballer Kelce whose last game’s fame could lead to the men’s room. His future position may be only at the singer’s feet — or...

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Cindy Adams

Washington’s bureaucrats make a sham of democracy — time for reform is now under Trump

Washington’s bureaucrats make a sham of democracy — time for reform is now under Trump

Here’s a dirty secret about the federal government many Americans are just learning: It’s always run by Democrats, even when voters elect...

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Daniel Mccarthy