Bill de Blasio

Mar 14, 2025 | nydailynews.com | Eric Adams |Bill de Blasio |Mitchell H. Katz

On this day, exactly five years ago, we lost the first New Yorker to COVID-19. In the days and weeks that followed, the city went into lockdown, as schools and all non-essential businesses closed for what we thought — at the time — would be a few days, possibly a few weeks. We recall the eerily silent streets, sirens wailing in the night, Zoom classrooms, and our health care heroes working tirelessly.

Nov 19, 2024 | brookings.edu | Bill de Blasio

Over the past two decades, the United States has battled an unprecedented opioid crisis, with synthetic opioids like fentanyl driving overdose deaths to devastating levels. In 2021 alone, more than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses. After years of grim statistics, overdose rates started declining in 2024. Is the U.S. finally turning a corner on the opioid crisis? How have U.S. domestic and external drug policies evolved?

Feb 17, 2024 | msnbc.com | Bill de Blasio

New Yorkers are no stranger to Donald Trump’s legal problems. Starting decades ago, knowledgeable residents of the Big Apple witnessed the Trump family cheat and rig the system for their own benefit. So what’s truly interesting about Friday's New York civil fraud decision is that Trump and his co-defendants are finally being held financially accountable — to the tune of over $350 million. This massive judgment highlights the extent of Trump and the Trump Organization’s white-collar malfeasance.

Feb 5, 2024 | msnbc.com | Bill de Blasio

But this problem is bigger than New York. One state government purposely penalizing the people of other states is un-American. So much for “e pluribus unum.”As I’ve reflected on the twin challenges of migration and border security, I’ve tried to remember three basic things:• Those fleeing oppression and violence are just like so many Americans’ ancestors. We need to treat them with the decency we would want for our own families if they were in the same situation.