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How to screw up universal childcare
After decades of families performing small miracles to afford childcare and sitting for years on waitlists, politicians are finally treating early childhood education like the essential economic infrastructure it is. Around the country, states and cities are pursuing universal preschool and childcare programs. It’s exactly the kind of bold, life-changing social policy that those of…
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Curiosity Makes Me a Better Parent
—Mary Long—Getty Images My five-year-old loves The Magic School Bus. He likes when I paint the windows of my truck with planets, stars, and rocket ships to resemble Ms. Frizzle’s shape-shifting vehicle of discovery. He wants adventure, curiosity, and whimsy. Recently, I took us on a field trip to the planetarium for a show on…
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The Painful Truth About Long Covid
Nothing about long Covid adds up. Consider prevalence rates: How could one study find it affected 3.3 percent of the population of the UK but others an alarming 51 percent of South Americans and 86 percent of Egyptians? Or treatment methods: The BMJ’s systematic review of ways to treat long Covid lists two as supported by moderate…
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New college grads are doing better than the vibes suggest
There are many ways to bomb a college commencement speech. You can tell everyone you composed the talk while high on ayahuasca, like Chris Pan at Ohio State. You can deliver the entirety of your speech in the voices of your incredibly annoying cartoon characters, like Tom Kenny and Bill Fagerbakke at the University of…
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Mamdani wants to remove former Mayor Ed Koch’s name from iconic NYC bridge — but critics say hands off
“How’m I doing?” Don’t ask! Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to remove the name of his predecessor Ed Koch from the 59th Street Bridge — a stance some critics say is a bridge too far. The democratic socialist mayor, Council Speaker Julie Menin were just a few of the politicians who told an LGBT group that…
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Paramount’s Delrahim slams ‘fear-mongering’ and partisan politics clouding Warner Bros. deal
Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison has been circling the globe, meeting government regulators who will ultimately decide the fate of his controversial $111-billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Last week, Ellison spent two hours answering questions from U.S. Justice Department antitrust lawyers in a bid to secure a key government approval — one that few…
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Websites Can Now Spy on You Through Your Hard Drive
Over the decades, there has been no shortage of sites using clever techniques to covertly track visitors’ browsing histories, device fingerprints, and keystrokes and mouse movements in real time. Even Meta and Yandex were recently caught joining in the privacy-invasive free-for-all. Now sites have a new way to spy on their visitors: by measuring subtle…
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Trump is reeling — and this sin is critical to knocking him out
Commenters to this website often lament that too many opinion columns predict Trump’s imminent downfall over his latest scandal, yet it has yet to come. But, while some of us do believe there are still things that might tear him down, we know there are people who certainly can. You. By the very act of…
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Remembering Marilyn Monroe on her 100th birthday: ‘She was just Norma Jeane’
Honoring Marilyn’s big 100 Today would have been Marilyn Monroe’s 100th birthday. Before The New York Post, I wrote such books as the as-told-to-me autobio of Lee Strasberg, who created the Actors Studio. His pupil and friend: Marilyn. So I knew her. So did her friend James Haspiel, who has written several books about her.…
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The Boulder Tragedy One Year Later
Flowers are left on police barricades outside the Boulder County Courthouse on June 2, 2025 in Boulder, Colorado. —Chet Strange—Getty Images One year ago, on June 1, 2025, a man walked up to a group of Jewish community members on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall and firebombed them. They were not soldiers. They were not politicians.…