This is one of the most try ing times in the history of New York. No state in the union has...
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The administration may trump the health-care debate with another di visive issue -- "comprehensive...
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Jacob Sullum does a good job of explaining the problem when prosecutors think they can take over parental duties of...Legal challenges to 'deem and pass'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s methods for getting health care reform passed could end up in court . The question is if...Obama ‘does not particularly like Israel’
TNR’s Marty Peretz analyzes what is going between President Obama and Israel and it is a depressing analysis at that ....Obama doesn't care what you think, cont'd
James Taranto is feeling uneasy about the fact that President Obama and the Democrats seem to be zealously committed to...
The Democrats giveth, the Democrats taketh away.
Give Attorney General Eric Holder points for candor: Asked this week whether Osama bin Laden would get a civilian trial were he ever to be captured alive, he insisted that the facts on the ground would forefend that awkward possibility.
More than six months have now passed since Libyan Lockerbie bomber Abdul Ali al-Megrahi was given a "compassionate" release from a Scottish prison -- because he had less than three months to live.
Look out, suburbia: Here comes a big, fat school-tax hike!
President Obama and congressional Democrats got a huge gift yesterday from the Congressional Budget Office, which declared that their health-care overhaul would do everything they said it would -- cover 95 percent of Americans at a cost of $940 billion while cutting $138 billion from the deficit.
* I am mortified and embarrassed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's bald stupidity, which is being masked as loyalty ("Israel-Bashing Hill Is Loyal -- to a Fault," Michael Goodwin, March 17).
Dreams in a Time of War A Childhood Memoir by Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Pantheon) Seventy-two-year-old Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o endured much to have his voice heard. Now teaching...
In the final season of “Diff’rent Strokes,” in 1986, Todd Bridges was pulling in $30,000 a week for being on the receiving end of Gary Coleman’s insistent “Whatchu talkin’ bout,...
The devil is back. Almost 40 years after William Peter Blatty’s “The Exorcist” terrified its first generation of fans, his new novel “Dimiter” explores another hell:...
Libraries are a girl’s best friend. At least they can be if, like Suzan-Lori Parks, you ever needed a peaceful retreat. “My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and...
The Heights by Peter Hedges (Dutton) The author of “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” and “An Ocean in Iowa” takes aim at strollerfied Brooklyn Heights this time out. Tim Welch is a...
When witnessing an awe-inspiring talent, whether it comes from sports, music or literature, most people just chalk it up to natural-born gifts. While discussing arguably the...
“The Big Short” could be described as the ultimate love letter to the oddballs on the fringes of the stock and bond market who “told us so” back in 2007 when they predicted the...
The first time Tony Ciminera, vice president of Yugo America, actually drove a Yugo, it almost killed him. The steering went out and he stopped just short of plowing into a tree...
“I wish I were a more promiscuous reader,” confesses John Lithgow, whose obvious intelligence (Harvard, Class of ’67) informs his every role, be it the cunning killer of “Dexter”...
Early on in Carol Goodman’s new novel, we learn that “Arcadia was a place in Greece where life was supposed to be perfect.” You can almost hear the ominous music swelling, tipping...
“There’s a tear in every word,” is how longtime record producer Billy Sherrill described Tammy Wynette’s singing. The legendary country star had 17 No. 1 hits, including “Stand By...
The Game From Where I Stand A Ballplayer’s Inside View by Doug Glanville (Henry Holt, May) It’s no surprise that former big league outfielder Doug Glanville (Phillies, Cubs,...
For more than 20 years, William S. Lerach was the most feared lawyer in America. He and his former firm, Milberg Weiss, were Jedi masters of security law, targeting Fortune 500...
Elizabeth Bard is in love — with flaky croissants, hidden bistros and the French concept of le cinq a sept (“the 5 to 7”), “that hard-to-account-for time after work when lovers...
“I don’t like to be bored, ever,” says Judy Collins, who is as discerning about the books she reads as she is about the ballads she sings. Which is why you’ll find her reading...
After a 2006 game between the Minnesota Twins and the Boston Red Sox, a clandestine meeting took place in the rear laundry room of Minnesota's Metrodome between the managers of...
“The Autobiography of an Execution” is a “memoir” by a Houston death-row lawyer, David Dow, whose mission it is to disgust us with what he knows about capital punishment in Texas...
The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm (Other Press) Consider yourself warned: This has nothing to do with those popular American Girl dolls. It’s a murder mystery that opens in...
“I could not have my mother come to my funeral. A year later, that is the best explanation I can give.” So begins Nick Schuyler’s harrowing tale of how he survived more than 40...
When “Saturday Night Fever” — set around a real-life Bay Ridge discothèque — premiered in December 1977, the movie grossed $200 million and sparked the nationwide disco craze. The...
“I was a nerd in a complicated family, and poetry saved my life,” says Mary Karr. Those who’ve read her harrowing memoirs may think she’s being awfully generous about the...
Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend — but they’re a thief’s, too. Their small size, their liquidity, their extreme value and their virtual untraceability make them the ultimate...
Adam Haslett’s debut novel — his last story collection “You Are Not a Stranger Here” was nominated for a Pulitzer — is a prescient dramatization of what happens when the legalized...
In “The Whale,” winner of the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, Philip Hoare, like Ishmael before him, sets out on his passionate search for knowledge about the...
Decades before he became America’s poet laureate, Robert Pinsky was seriously into sax. Only later, in his early 20s, the guy voted “most musical boy” in high school realized he...
Moonfixer The Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd by Earl Lloyd and Sean Kirst (Syracuse University Press) Lloyd is a trailblazing figure, often overlooked for his contribution to...
It’s become the biggest cliché in the book world — an exposé on the item that “changed the world.” Looking for 12 Greeks who changed the world? There’s a book for that. Molecules?...
Given her background — her dad was Jimmy Carter’s national-security adviser, her mom’s a sculptor — you’d hardly expect Mika Brzezinski’s reading to run to, say, Jackie...
The price consultant, a now-common position among retailers, advises stores on how to persuade consumers to spend more but get less. Their stock in trade is psychological...
Do you know your tissue rights? Most likely, you’ve never even heard the term. But the little-known story of Henrietta Lacks, chronicled by science journalist Rebecca Skloot, may...
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