A black mark on de Blasio

The answer to the Daily News Freedom of Information request arrived Friday: a thick package, nearing some 900 pages, with email addresses displaying notable names. The names were about the only thing legible.

Who Ate Republicans’ Brains?

When the tweeter-in-chief castigated Senate Republicans as "total quitters" for failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, he couldn't have been more wrong. In fact, they showed zombie-like relentlessness in their determination to take health care away from millions of Americans, shambling forward despite devastating analyses by the Congressional Budget Office, denunciations of their plans by every major medical group, and overwhelming public disapproval.

Graham: The Mooch muscles into inner circle

I've been an Anthony Scaramucci fan ever since he went down south to help his cousin Vinny beat that murder rap. "Two yutes," right? "I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?" Think I exaggerate? Here are a few highlights of the new White House communications director's on-the-record conversation last week with a reporter for The New Yorker: "O.K., the Mooch showed up a week ago.

Trump’s threat deserves swift kick

Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan speaks at a town hall meeting at Bartlett High School in Anchorage on Saturday, May 20. Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan speaks at a town hall meeting at Bartlett High School in Anchorage on Saturday, May 20. How dare you, Mr. President, from your Twittering perch in distant Washington, threaten a senator from Alaska - or any senator - with damage to her state's share of public interests because she voted not your views but her own carefully considered views on a matter of concern to Alaskans. Apparently you think that Alaskans are so attuned to top-down dictatorial styles of government that they will punish Sen. Lisa Murkowski at the polls at your direction.

Letters: What do the Democrats stand for?

Re: "What does the Democratic Party stand for?" [Opinion, July 25]: First a history lesson. Coming of political age in April, June and those hot August nights 1968, and again May 1970, I will tell you what Democrats stood against: The war, the draft, soldiers being denied voting rights because they were under 21, minorities being denied voting rights because they were not white, "All the Presidents Men," racial and socioeconomic oppression, voter suppression, violations of human rights anywhere and everywhere around the world.

New health benefits among major K-12 reforms of 2017

A new day in health care is slowly on its way for Washington's K-12 school teachers, classroom aides, part-time bus drivers and even lunchroom workers. The new school insurance program, approved by the Legislature in June, is not going to be a quick fix.

The GOP steps up to check an out-of-control president

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Sen. Lindsey O. Graham has said he will pursue legislation to prevent President Trump from firing independent counsel Robert S. Mueller III. FROM THE beginning, the Trump presidency posed a unique challenge to the American system of government and, indeed, to the political theory upon which it was built.