While Joel Klein was among those being seriously considered by Barack Obama for Secretary of Education—Chicago Superintendent Arne Duncan... More >>

Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic and international spying operation in history. Its prime engine is the National Security... More >>

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Since I live in the Village, my Congressman is Jerrold Nadler, a civil libertarian for all seasons. Unlike many of his Democratic colleagues, he... More >>

Pressure is building on the new president from his more urgent supporters to begin validating their audacious hopes within his first 100 days.... More >>

During the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York, Ray Kelly's NYPD suspended the First Amendment by videotaping many of the protests... More >>

November 4 was indeed a transformative breakthrough for many black Americans, including the very young, for whom citizenship may now have a... More >>

If our new president intends to try to make America resemble what it was meant to be, he will have to deal with the noxious residue of the... More >>

For the past year, a 28-year-old Muslim American student, Sayed Fahad Hashmi—the first person extradited to the United States from Britain... More >>

On October 7, Jaritza Geigel, A 17-year-old senior at the Bushwick School for Social Justice in Brooklyn, told a Daily News reporter about the... More >>