Harry Siegel

1 month ago | nydailynews.com | Harry Siegel

Eric Adams tight-walked the line between pathetic and malignant with his last-minute trip to the White House Friday for a meeting he’d requested with Donald Trump. The president made Hizzoner cool his jets before briefly meeting behind closed doors, without the joint public appearance Adams had wanted in a visit he insisted was on behalf of New Yorkers and the city’s priorities. They discussed “almost nothing. He came in to say hello,” Trump told reporters after Adams left. “He’s a nice man.

2 months ago | nydailynews.com | Harry Siegel

There’s a fresh glimpse of a silver lining in another slow-motion catastrophe of an election where circumstances and a relative handful of voters are again poised to decide on the city’s future with millions of other people here along for the ride.

2 months ago | nydailynews.com | Harry Siegel

An uninhibited and revenge-oriented President Trump is escalating his full-scale assault on his enemies, very much including New York City and State. His administration is revoking student visas and even green cards with no due process to speak of — often without informing those students or their schools it’s done so. He’s personally threatening to pull all federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities like ours that don’t always cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

Mar 29, 2025 | nydailynews.com | Harry Siegel

Masked agents are hunting down and arresting American campus members while the government is demanding universities ban masks at protests. There’s no public list of who’s had their visas and even green cards revoked, just a series of news reports that started with the “kidnapping” of Mahmoud Khalil from his Columbia University housing and then a drumbeat of stories about individual cases.

Mar 29, 2025 | thedailybeast.com | David Rothkopf |Michael Black |Kali Holloway |Harry Siegel

Suppose a dangerous lunatic were elected President of the United States. I know it’s a stretch. But bear with me. Eager that he hold his position so that they could retain the power they derive by association, advisors to this madman, this Mad King, would undoubtedly seek to find a way to manage their chief executive’s diminished capacity—much as they might have done should the president have become too old or enfeebled to perform effectively in office. (What?