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Jay Jochnowitz

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Jochnowitz: A police state isn’t coming. It’s here.

Federal agents detain a man on Aug. 25, 2025, after he left an immigration court hearing at the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building in New York City....

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Jochnowitz: Trump TV, making television great again

Times Union photo illustration / Getty Images. Dear Valued American, I am thrilled, probably more thrilled than any president (including the late...

30.06.2025 4

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Jochnowitz: Eighty-six this blatant censorship

Times Union photo illustration. Early in my career, I worked for my hometown weekly newspaper on Long Island. It was one of two papers in town. Our...

26.05.2025 6

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Jochnowitz: We can't excuse corruption

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks outside the West Side Institutional Synagogue on April 1, 2025, in New York City.  At this moment, the...

28.04.2025 4

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Jochnowitz: How much of this will we take?

Military veterans and family members of active-duty troops gather in the Chicago to call for the resignation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on...

31.03.2025 5

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Jochnowitz: A dark dawn in Trump’s America

President Donald Trump waits to enter the East Room of the White House for an event on Oct. 6, 2017. It was about 1 in the morning when my wife, more...

27.01.2025 10

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Jochnowitz: Trump won, fair and square

Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, appear at an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on November 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach,...

30.12.2024 5

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Jochnowitz: Could it happen here?

Poster for a Federal Theater production of "It Can't Happen Here" in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1937. The play was adapted from Sinclair Lewis' dystopian...

25.11.2024 7

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Jochnowitz: This is supporting our troops?

Credit: Getty Images. Not to sound like a scold, but shame on you, America. Shame on you if you reflexively thank people for their military...

26.08.2024 3

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