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An African-American millionaire can buy a home in any expensive suburb. Color is no longer a barrier. Despite this progress, President Obama’s Department of Housing and Urban Development is accusing expensive towns of racism, simply because most minorities can’t afford to live there. Westchester County, N.Y., has struggled since 2009 under a plan by a

What do the Confederate flag, the words “Respect Choice” and the message “Choose Life” have in common? DMVs in many states are arbitrarily banning them from license plates. Texas officials nixed the Confederate flag after an African-American pastor labeled it a symbol of oppression at a public hearing, though nine other states allow it. New

This week health insurers announced they will hike premiums on ObamaCare plans by double digits in 2016. Yet it’s not ObamaCare buyers who are getting gouged. For the most part, what consumers have to pay is calculated based on their income. They don’t pay the sticker price. It’s you — the taxpayers — who get

SUBWAY platforms and bus shelters have become the newest targets of political correctness. The mass transit agencies in Washington, New York and Philadelphia have all moved to ban political advertising, in response to the American Freedom Defense Initiative, a group known for criticizing Islam. In Philadelphia, a federal judge in March ordered the Southeastern Pennsylvania

Emma Sulkowicz graduated from Columbia College last week, lugging her mattress under one arm as she reached for her degree with the other. Some classmates cheered Sulkowicz — the self-proclaimed poster woman for the fight against sexual assault — for carrying around the mattress on which she was allegedly raped. Never mind that her charges against a

If you’re applying to Harvard and your last name is Wong or Liu, changing it to Lopez or Luciano might just make the difference you need to get in. Harvard routinely rejects “Asian” applicants in favor of whites and sought-after minorities with lower test scores and grades. Enrollment data reveal that Harvard limits Asian-Americans to

If you’re ever trapped in a burning building, just pray the firefighter climbing up to rescue you isn’t Rebecca Wax. Or someone like her, who’s been given an EZ-Pass through firefighting training for the sake of gender equity. This week Wax, who repeatedly flunked the rigorous physical test required by the New York City Fire

New York City’s 11 public hospitals are in dire financial straits. City hospital chief Dr. Ram Raju has laid out a plan to put these hospitals on the road to financial wellness, but his scheme is a sugar pill. Worse, these city-run hospitals aren’t the only ones in critical condition. At least a dozen other

Contrary to what is widely reported, the Clinton Foundation never agreed to stop raising money from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Such funding should have been off limits — because it risks the appearance that US foreign policy is up for sale. But even after Republican and Democratic senators pressed her

Bernard Kerik, who headed New York City’s jails and then the Police Department before a felony conviction landed him in federal prison for four years, is reinventing himself as a prison reformer. In his new book, “From Jailer to Jailed,” Kerik describes the brutality of solitary confinement. Serious reformers are also zeroing in on the