To the editor: Now that the Republicans control the U.S. House, let the investigations begin! more

To the editor: In 2019, Medicare quietly launched a scheme called “direct contracting,” allowing insurance companies to control the health care of tens of millions of traditional Medicare and Medicare supplement beneficiaries. more

Just recently, the United Nations gathered in our city for the annual General Assembly — the first in-person Assembly in two years. more

(re: “Why is it so hard to see what’s right in front of you?” Sept. 22) This will be my last missive on the Israel-Palestine issue, in response to the Jeselsohns and Charles Moerdler.  (We have to stop meeting this way!)  more

Pete Neary was the store manager at Daitch Shopwell, the main grocery store in our North Riverdale neighborhood — our “village” in the Bronx where it seemed during the 1960s and ‘70s, that kids from every family worked at one time or another. My older brother Marshall worked there for years before I did, and Pete had been his boss as well. more

The Russian government’s justifications for its war in Ukraine — the largest, most destructive military operation in Europe since World War II — are not persuasive. more

Climate action funding in the Inflation Reduction Act is a giant leap for humankind. However, we need small steps from each of us to prevent it from faltering. more

Events this summer have unambiguously demonstrated that, to much of the nation, the hard right majority on the Supreme Court of the United States stands for injustice, while the “just-the-facts, ma’am” U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol stands for justice. more

(re: “A deeper look at BDS, antisemitism and reality,” Aug. 4) Revealingly ignoring undeniable Russian butchery of Ukrainian civilians, China’s oppression of Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps, and Iranian and Syrian ethnic cleansing, Peter Wolf again directs his ire at Jews. He invokes misplaced moral principles to baselessly justify the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement’s assault on Israel and Jewry in an uninformed and inaccurate exegesis that seeks to warrant the savagery of those, like Hamas and Palestine Islamic Jihad, who mindlessly kill and maim Israeli civilians. more

By PETER WOLF   G iven the large Jewish population in and around Riverdale, concerns about antisemitism is understandable. But the equation of antisemitism with groups opposed to … more