Adam Brodsky has served as The Post's deputy editorial-page editor since 2000. He has written on local, national and international affairs -- including on subjects as diverse as local school governance, health care and terrorism. Before joining The Post, he was managing editor at The Forward and worked for a year as a spokesman for the New York City Economic Development Corporation under Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
American victims of terrorism can sue their own government for damages -- but not, generally, foreign regimes or officials. It's a ludicrous approach to the War on Terror. Weren't we supposed to be using every tool...
July 16, 2010 12:00 AM
As America celebrates free dom this Independence Day, some 35,000 boys are preparing for a first-hand encounter with it later this month -- at a national jamboree that will mark the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts....
July 02, 2010 12:00 AMBarack Obama has finally become a wartime president. Unfortunately, the enemy happens to be an oil com pany. Talk about missed opportunities: In Tuesday's Oval Office speech, the president could have addressed a...
June 17, 2010 12:00 AMRealists know that all the kabuki diplomacy last week won't slow Iran's nuclear-weapons drive one bit. But there is a way to punish Tehran, dent its military capacity and -- who knows? -- maybe even complicate its...
May 24, 2010 12:00 AM
Doubling-down on defense isn't going to win the War on Terror. Yesterday's scare in Times Square shows just how hopeless that strategy is -- if a cooler can be a threat, not even the NYPD will be able to stop them all....
May 08, 2010 12:00 AM
WEST ORANGE, NJ THE Garden State tax revolt is starting to bear fruit -- and it's about time, too. On Tuesday, voters nixed 315 of 537 school-district budgets, including many that sought tax hikes. That's a...
April 23, 2010 12:00 AM
Every weekday morning, some 200 city buses roll into Manhattan from Staten Is land, packed to the gills. After letting off passengers, they head home -- empty -- and park at one of three SI depots. Later, they head...
April 09, 2010 12:00 AM
ALBANY is beyond hope -- and every one knows it. Corruption's rampant. No one gives a fig about taxpayers. The governor's MIA, the Senate's overrun by boodlers and bunglers. The Assembly? Bought and paid for....
March 19, 2010 12:00 AM
MTA Chairman Jay Walder last week said he was losing sleep over his options for plugging a $750 million budget hole. Planned service cuts, he said, are "tearing my heart out." But if Walder wants to save mass...
March 08, 2010 12:00 AM
Mayor Bloomberg issued a stern warning to state lawmakers last month: Gov. Paterson's budget cuts would meet stiff resistance in the Big Apple. "Let me tell you," Hizzoner huffed, "the cuts the state's fiscal mess...
February 05, 2010 12:00 AM
If you believe the hype, the United States has a valuable new ally in the War on Terror: American Muslim leaders. Alas, it's called "hype" for a reason. Yes, some American Muslim groups are making a show of...
January 19, 2010 12:00 AMLike other recent years, 2010 promises big news developments. Rest as sured, none of the following will be among them: * Former President George W. Bush will win the Nobel Peace Prize for liberating Iraq and...
January 01, 2010 12:00 AMPRESIDENT Obama and con gressional Democrats are now fixing their gun sights on health insurers, but their broader, underlying goals remain unchanged: socializing costs and extending Washington's control of the health...
August 24, 2009 2:40 AMEAT your vegetables. Avoid sweets and fats. Never smoke. And do your calis thenics. Or be ready to pay a hefty tax. Ridiculous? Sure. But under ObamaCare, Americans may well find themselves moving quickly...
August 10, 2009 12:49 AMIN 2005, the year Mayor Bloomberg last ran for re- election, Hizzoner OK'd race- and gender-based quotas -- er, "goals" -- for city contracts. He's on the ballot again in less than four months -- and, hmm, this month...
July 24, 2009 1:03 AMROBERT McNamara's death this week reig nited a debate that couldn't be more timely: Should Americans stand up to aggression, hostility and threats that could jeopardize their basic liberties, perhaps even their lives...
July 10, 2009 3:28 AMCITY Comptroller Bill Thompson faces nearly in surmountable odds in his race to unseat Mayor Bloomberg. But if he builds his campaign on flip-flops and distortions, Thompson might have to kiss his future prospects...
June 26, 2009 2:12 AMEVEN before the blood was fully mopped up from Wednesday's shooting at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the left began shouting "We told you so." Homeland Security's gumshoes, we're told, were right all along...
June 12, 2009 2:06 AMEVER since November, Democrats and Republicans alike have wondered how the GOP would rebuild -- as the press mischievously stoked the "rift" between party moderates and conservatives. Just Monday, The New York Times...
May 29, 2009 12:56 AMIF President Obama were as crafty as, say, Osama bin Laden, you might wonder if his decision last week to release new "torture" photos this month was part of some clever psych-ops scheme. After all, the decision...
May 01, 2009 1:07 AMDISGUSTED by the teachers union's bra zen muscle-flexing at City Hall last week? Well, it's nothing compared to a sister union's power punches in the Niagara Falls Wheatfield school district. On the same day that...
April 17, 2009 1:10 AMBARACK Obama wrote a book about hope and be came president promising it. So why's he doing everything in his power to snuff it out? Think about it: In Obama World, what are we supposed to "hope" for? Certainly not...
March 27, 2009 2:40 AMIT sounds like parody, but it's not: Secretary of State Hill ary Clinton last week an nounced a four-year program of US scholarships and "opportunity grants" for "disadvantaged young Palestinians" to attend...
March 13, 2009 1:05 AMPICTURE yourself on a cold, deserted subway platform. It's the weekend, or maybe late at night - and (what else?) nary a train in sight. So you wait. And wait. And wait some more. Still, no train. Nor even a...
February 27, 2009 12:19 AMMAYOR Bloomberg's budget presentation today will be sobering. He'll say the city is desperately short of cash and will likely outline "bold" steps to keep City Hall solvent. But the one measure he likely won't mention...
January 30, 2009 12:43 AMCALLS for national unity were rampant this week, as is common when the na tion welcomes a new leader. But to boost our chances of overcoming the huge challenges we face, Americans - of every stripe - are going to have...
January 24, 2009 12:50 AMWITH global conflicts raging, a volatile econ omy and tectonic polit ical shifts afoot, anyone claiming to know what will happen in 2009 is probably named Bernie Madoff. On the other hand, you can make book on what...
January 01, 2009 1:56 AMGOV. Paterson and Mayor Bloom berg may be about to blow the biggest chance in a generation to fix New York's long-broken, budget-busting public-pension system. Indeed, their planned remedies fall so far short, and...
December 22, 2008 2:43 AMMATTHEW Carmel has an answer for some of government's wackiest policies: the "prescription handgun." OK, maybe Carmel - a firearms instructor and a friend of mine - wasn't looking to expose the silliness when he...
December 12, 2008 12:41 AMGIVEN all the grim economic and fiscal news, New Yorkers may be tempted to pity Gov. Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg for the "difficult" budget choices they're confronting. Here's a secret: You couldn't ask for a...
November 14, 2008 4:50 AM
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