Commentary

The day after New York recorded its first positive coronavirus test, on March 2, 2020, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo said something that should go down in the annals of misplaced hubris: Read More

Mayor Adams should save his oxygen for the real crisis in our schools — our children are not being taught how to read, if they’re even showing up to class at all. Read More

A bill headed to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk would make major changes to how school superintendents, town supervisors, and mayors handle bad behavior by public employees. Read More

Flawed science not needed to make judgements about school choice. A new study out of Stanford University indicates that charter schools are outperforming traditional public schools (Editorial Board, June 15). School choice supporters touting the s Read More

When Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers approved New York’s latest budget, they pushed spending to its highest level in history. New data about the state’s financial picture show they didn’t think enough about the future. A new budget Read More

The school choice revolution continues. Six states now allow each child’s education funding to be used for the school or educational expenses of his choice. More states are soon to follow. What seemed impossible only five years ago became per Read More

Developers looking to build thousands of wind turbines off the Mid-Atlantic and New England coast are coming up against a force even more relentless than the Atlantic winds: the Iron Law of Megaprojects, offering a warning of the trouble ahea Read More

The stage is set for a battle royale within the New York Democratic Party over climate policy. Governor Hochul has suddenly realized that the cost of the state’s planned emission reduction scheme will be “extraordinary,” and is challenging her Read More

Suspending disbelief can make for a great entertainment experience in the movie theater, but it makes for terrible tax policy. Read More

“We will not be raising income taxes this year,” Gov. Hochul declared in January at the opening of New York’s 2023 legislative session. Read More

As New York marks the third anniversary of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, questions about how state leaders handled the crisis keep piling up. The latest disturbing revelation concerns the memoir that Andrew Cuomo published in October 202 Read More

In 2021, Gov. Hochul signed legislation making it an official goal of the state that by 2035 all new passenger cars and trucks sold in New York would be zero-emission vehicles. This wa Read More