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Medicaid helps children in school too

In the search for waste, fraud and abuse, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have set their sights on Medicaid and the Department of Education. On paper, these potential cuts don’t affect local curriculum, or educational services for special needs families, because laws are in place to protect them. But what does this really mean in practice? It got me thinking about my own experience with in-school services. I’ve had hearing loss since I was a kid as a result of painful infections. I also had a speech impediment. Speech therapists would ...

Certain tariffs could be political malpractice

Will the second Trump administration come undone by an economic policy based on what the British military historian Lawrence Freedman, describing Vladimir Putin’s rationale for invading Ukraine, calls “tendentious history”? This week, it started to look like the answer might be yes. In retrospect, it’s clear how the Biden administration’s economic policy stimulated inflation, which, together with its open borders policy, defeated Joe Biden and, after his withdrawal, his designated successor, Kamala Harris. Biden took office when large parts of the American economy were ...

N.Y.’s most critical race is for council

The vast majority of New Yorkers believe their city is in crisis. Electing a new mayor won’t solve it. The crisis is largely due to the lunatic-left policies enacted by the City Council — even over the opposition of the mayor. Truth is, the council treats the mayor like a pinata. New Yorkers need to go into the coming election with a new mindset, that their choice for council is every bit as important as for mayor. The council controls the city’s budget and is also to blame for the anti-cop laws that have destroyed New York Police Department morale and given criminals free rein ...

The good, the bad, the undocumented

President Donald Trump is deporting immigrants — 11,000 last month. Some people are unhappy about that. Last week a judge ordered a stop to Trump’s removal of Venezuelan nationals. (Deportation happened anyway.) I definitely want immigrant criminals deported. Trump says migrant crime is “happening at levels that nobody thought possible!” But that’s not true. Researching my new video, I learned that immigrants are actually less likely to get into trouble than native-born Americans. Texas, the only state that tracks immigrant crime, compares convictions per ...

President Putin is on the blitz

The cliche has been that the ball is now in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s court. Not any longer. Putin has responded to U.S. appeals for a ceasefire in the war with Ukraine with a strong backhand, rejecting a ceasefire in his unprovoked invasion. Now the ball is in President Trump’s court. What will he do? On “Face the Nation” last Sunday, Ambassador Steve Witkoff, the U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, said Putin and President Trump will hold a phone call this week. Witkoff said he met in Moscow with Putin for more than three hours. He called it a “positive ...

Canada proves it is not boring

Years ago, a contest was run for the most boring newspaper headline. The winner was “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative,” which appeared in the April 10, 1986, edition of The New York Times. “Worthwhile initiative” is a snooze-worthy phrase. Adding a reference to the quiet and restrained country to the north was seen as draining the last ounce of blood out of the header. Canada has since become a news flash as it punches back on Donald Trump’s attacks on its economy and insults to its dignity. Or as they say in hockey, “Sticks up.” Why Trump is heaping all this malice on ...