The Covid-19 pandemic had a traumatic medical, political, and economic effect on the world with a 1-2% mortality rate. But there are diseases around the world right now, and potential diseases in the future, which could be much more deadly. Here are just a few.
The Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) is a bill designed to give qualified non-profits the opportunity to bid on a multi-family apartment building of four or more rental units when a landlord decides to sell.
A battle for Maine’s Senate seat and with it a possible U.S. Senate majority for the Democrats in 2027 has grown from a seed to a forest since a September 2025 New Yorker article launched Graham Platner’s career in politics.
The first Congressmember that I remember interacting with was the Congressmember who represented Greenwich Village. Her district ran all the way up the West Side up to Columbia University where I was a student.
Still clad in a Knicks jersey from the championship parade earlier in the day, Mayor Zohran Mamdani told a roaring crowd in Brooklyn’s Kings Theater on June 18 that his election the previous November was just the beginning.
I’m a fan of the Netflix series Stranger Things. In this sci-fi coming-of-age thriller set in a 1980s small-town America, teenagers face their fears of growing up and transitioning to an adult world with all of its peculiarities.
The Writers Guild of America recently surprised the industry with a new tentative minimum bargaining agreement with the studios, or the AMPTP.
Soon after he was elected president in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) unveiled his New Deal program to save the nation from the Great Depression.
Village Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman and District 2 City Councilmember Harvey Epstein called on Mayor Mamdani to right a towering wrong ─ namely the 30 story, 538 foot tall building approved for 5 West 13th Street, just west of Fifth Avenue.
In towns and cities across the country, concerned citizens have taken action to protect undocumented aliens ─ and indeed all residents ─ against rampaging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
