They say: "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight." What do we make of the fact that outside of three big cities in the UK, the great majority of homicides utilize knives?

My conclusion is that residents of Britain don't expect to be in a gunfight, so a...

Sometimes people spend years working on preserving a piece of history and they do not get recognition. And then, all at once, the recognition comes. That has happened to two people who have sought to preserve the only "underground railroad" site in...

One hundred years ago this month, Alice Paul of New Jersey organized a parade of women in Washington, D.C.

It was an extraordinary concept, a leap in the annals of advocacy.

It would bring back to public attention the need for women to...

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is ahead in a recent poll (NY1-Marist) by three to one against her nearest challengers for the mayoralty of New York City. She held her spot at a Friday breakfast speech at the New York Law School...

If the U.S. Treasury issues a trillion-dollar palladium coin and then sells it to the Federal Reserve System or deposits it as cash, maybe the debt ceiling would be legally bypassed via the Treasury's authority to issue collectible coins.

Where did all that come from? I ask as a student...

President Obama achieved a great deal in his first term to advance energy efficiency and renewable energy. But his objective of making significant progress to slow climate...

In the Sandy Aftermath, Governor Andrew Cuomo says New York State took a $33 billion hit and he is asking Washington for $30 billion.

Speaker Christine Quinn says New York City has suffered $26 billion in damages and is asking the Feds for $20 billion, with a special request...

How does Hurricane Sandy compare in severity with Hurricane Irene? Eqecat has estimated likely insured losses from Sandy of up to $10 billion, which is less than was predicted. It implies a loss of close to $20 billion, based on the...

Barry Commoner was uncommon. He was a scientist who acted on his belief that a scientist has a responsibility to society. Commoner made the appropriate connections between social justice and environmental stewardship, sustaining Rachel Carson's appeal to preserve the planet....

Congressman Tim Bishop (D-NY1) has represented the East End of Long Island since January 2003, having defeated Randy Altschuler (R-C-I) in 2010. This year Altschuler is mounting another challenge against the 12th-generation Long Islander. He claims in his August 22 campaign letter that Rep. Bishop's votes in Congress since 2003...

Last month auto workers at the Maruti Suzuki plant near New Delhi were so angry they killed the plant manager, injured a dozen or more Japanese managers, and set fire to the factory. What was going on in that factory?

I asked Rishi Sher Singh that question two...

Surrounded by trees and gardens, Guild Hall in East Hampton, N.Y. is a serene place. On Sunday afternoon, I await a...

Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard's 28th president and its first woman president, was in New York City on May 3 to celebrate Harvard's 375th year and reconnect with alumni. It was an interesting location, the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center, on the...

The removal of the barricades around Zuccotti Park could've just been the result of good legal work by civil liberties lawyers.

Or maybe something else was going on here as well.

Mayor Bloomberg on October 7, 2011 expressed concern that the Occupy Wall Street protests will...

The U.S. unemployment rate ("U3") declined slightly to 9.0 percent -- not much comfort.

But if we add the percentage of the labor force that is underemployed -- the involuntarily employed part-time, i.e., those working "part-time for economic reasons" -- the combined index of underemployment fell by two-tenths of...

The latest county job and wage numbers suggest that one place economic recovery starts is in counties that were already quite well off, like Manhattan. They also suggest that Santa Clara County, CA -- the heart of Silicon Valley -- is Manhattan's main competitor.

In the first quarter...