Michael Goodwin

A clear sign there is still hope for New York comes with the news that Bronx Congressman Ritchie Torres, a Democrat, is considering challenging either Mayor Adams next year or Gov. Hochul in 2026. The only pity is that he can’t challenge them both. Run, Ritchie, run! Torres often stands alone or is part of a small group of common-sense Dems in going against the party’s far-left agenda. He refused to join the radical “Squad” in Congress and distinguished himself as an articulate and forceful supporter of Israel. A gay Afro-Puerto Rican raised as a Catholic in Throggs Neck,

“You were right about Trump,” he whispered, before delivering the bombshell: “And I voted for him.”

At a noisy holiday party, a friend pulled me aside for a quiet conversation. He’s long been a major Democratic donor in New York and nationally but has grown increasingly disenchanted with the party’s far-left policies. “You were right about Trump,” he whispered, before delivering the bombshell: “And I voted for him.” We shook hands and laughed. The election resulted in numerous Dems switching sides, but my friend’s conversion stands out because it shows Trump cut into the top ranks of the party hierarchy. And the conversation came even before President Biden’s pardon proved another shock to Dem officials and their propaganda outlets.

Technology's promises of human progress, potential and possibilities give it permission to exploit marginalized people, increase inequality and frequently adopt the worst of religion. — Mike Goodwin on "Tech Agnostic"

There she goes again — Kathy Hochul is playing New Yorkers for suckers. Her latest hokum is a plan to give taxpayers an “inflation refund” of up to $500, depending on income.

As he prepares to slink out the door, Biden's final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure.

“This is the way the world ends,” T.S. Eliot famously wrote. “Not with a bang but a whimper.” He might have been talking about Joe Biden’s presidency. As he prepares to slink out the door, Biden’s final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure. He pardoned his convicted-criminal son after vowing not to and his mass commutations included one for a judge convicted of taking kickbacks to send juveniles to for-profit detention facilities. The judge was in Scranton, Pa., meaning Biden even betrayed distraught parents in his hometown.

Even as defeated Democrats try to decide who they are and what they believe in, their media handmaidens face a crisis of their own.

Even as defeated Democrats try to decide who they are and what they believe in, their media handmaidens face a crisis of their own. The comeuppance against their politically driven bias has arrived — and it’s proving to be expensive in more ways than one. Recent days have reconfirmed that their war against Donald Trump is their most egregious assault on truth and fairness, but it was hardly the first or only. CNN was caught this week boasting it helped free a desperate Syrian prisoner from a government slaughterhouse in Damascus. Problem is, the man was quickly unmasked as an intelligence officer for the hated Assad regime,

There are media bombshells and then there is The Wall Street Journal report that Joe Biden is so mentally diminished that aides have isolated him to hide his decline from the public and even key me…