by David Bellavia and Dr. Marc Epstein This 4th of July is like no other that we’ve ever seen before.  A highly contagious virus courtesy of China has morphed into a worldwide pandemic, leaving over 130,000 Americans dead in its wake.  Social distancing is the watchword of the day, so parades, ...Read More...

by Marc Epstein Nicole Suriel With Joel Klein out the door of the Tweed Courthouse, having deployed his golden parachute successfully over Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp headquarters, a little bomblet was dropped by the Department of Education. For those of you with short memories, the news ...Read More...

by Marc Epstein December 7, 2003 -- WITH the passage of time, the attack on Pearl Harbor had begun to fade from memory. But 9/11 changed all that; how could it not? The comparisons were irresistible. In both instances airplanes descending out of the skies caught America unprepared, inflicting ...Read More...

by Marc Epstein Music and Lyrics By Rogers & Hart from 'Babes in Arms' (Second Verse) [BILLIE] When you're awake, the things you think Come from the dreams you dream Thought has wings And lots of things Are seldom what they seem Sometimes you think you've lived before All that you ...Read More...

The suspicion mounts that The Donald is actually referring to J.B. Biggley. But that means he would have had to have read a book. Or at least seen a play or movie. by Marc Epstein There was a moment in the first presidential debate when lots of people asked themselves: “Did Trump just say ...Read More...

by Marc Epstein "Deep State Swamp" by Ben Garrison “Drain the swamp” along with “Lock her up” were the two most memorable slogans of the Trump campaign. “Lock her up” vanished with Hillary Clinton’s defeat, but the ratcheting up of the ongoing investigation into Russian collusion with the members ...Read More...

by Marc Epstein “New York, New York, a wonderful town The Bronx is up and the Battery's down The people ride in a hole in the ground New York, New York, It's a wonderful town! “ (Music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green)   In 1995 I returned to NYC after ...Read More...

by Marc Epstein These days teacher-student sexual liaisons have become de rigueur. Just Google “teacher–student sex” and you’ll get about ten million hits. Last week the New York Post reported that a former middle school teacher, a 37 year-old married mother of four, sent sexually explicit ...Read More...

by Marc Epstein On August 14, 2016 quarterback Colin Kaepernick remained seated on the team bench during the playing of the national anthem at a pre-season game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Green Bay Packers. He stated that it was to protest the treatment of minorities. "I am not ...Read More...