Each July for the last decade, the Syrian regime has staged North Korean-style "popular marches"...
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Gov. Cuomo reached a tentative deal over the weekend that will save the state billions while averting 1,000 public-sector layoffs. Neat trick.
The House of Representatives today is expected to offer up yet another way out of the nation's debt-ceiling suspense thriller -- and Democrats (natch) are vowing to reject it.
Oh, the agony of de-feet.
New Yorkers may soon be socked with a hefty new tax -- and never even know what hit them.
Two high-powered investigations are now under way into the suspicious below-market-value sale of state-owned land in Queens to a politically juiced cultural group.
Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are going broke fast, as we are paying out more than we are taking in ("Uncle Sam, Sugar Daddy," Michael A. Walsh, PostOpinion, July 18).
Note to Nicole Gelinas and The Post for publishing her article, "MTA's Too-Nice Pay" (PostOpinion, July 13).
THE ISSUE: The murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky in Brooklyn’s Borough Park. *** My heart is shattered that Leiby Kletzky was not found alive ("Brave Boy's Fight for Life,"...
Whenever Emeril Lagasse needs something to entertain or inspire him — BAM! He picks up a cookbook. “My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New...
Red Summer The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America by Cameron McWhirter (Henry Holt) The Red Summer had nothing to do with Communists. It was the blood of black...
Sex on the Moon The Amazing Story Behind The Most Audacious Heist in History by Ben Mezrich Doubleday Thad Roberts opened his tackle box, took out a bag and placed it underneath...
A Story of Diamonds, Family, and a Way of Life by Alicia Oltuski Scribner Old New York slips away a little more each day — the fish market moves from South Street Seaport,...
A few years ago, I was teaching a course about rat behavior, and when I began the discussion of the complex, yet predictable, grooming patterns in rats. I reflexively started...
David Bowie: Starman by Paul Trynka Little, Brown and Company A sexual, cultural, political omnivore who reinvented rock ’n’ roll in the ’70s — and himself, reliably, over the...
How do you get to “Camelot”? For John Cullum, the Tony-winning star of stage, screen and TV (“Northern Exposure”), all it took that audition day in 1960 was a bit of the Bard...
Misterioso by Arne Dahl (Pantheon) In the newest Nordic crime fiction from Sweden, the first of Dahl’s Intercrime series, police detective Paul Hjelm has trouble with a hostage...
Dani’s Story A Journey from Neglect to Love by Diane and Bernie Lierow with Kay West Wiley She had never learned to swim. Had rarely bathed. But perhaps the only place that Dani,...
1. Independence was not declared on July 4. Each July 2 my wife and I drag out the grill and invite friends to a cookout to celebrate American independence. Why then and not on...
Not many people pick their passions out of a hat, but Harold Holzer did. The award-winning historian — who’s written, co-written or edited 41 books about Lincoln and the Civil War...
The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown by Paul Malmont (Simon & Schuster) The author of “The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril” mines similar ground in his newest pulp homage, a...
Portrait of a Monster Joran van der Sloot, a Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery by Lisa Pulitzer and Cole Thompson St. Martin’s Press Joran van der Sloot sits in a...
If there’s one thing Emme wouldn’t mind supersizing, it’s her commute, now that she’s got a Kindle to keep her company. “I take the bus in an hour earlier and just relax,” says...
At The Devil’s Table The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel by William C. Rempel Random House Jorge Salcedo watched as a colleague slipped a noose around...
The Declaration of Independents How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong With America by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch (Public Affairs) To put it mildly, these two Reason...
Martha Stewart’s cultivated much more than heirloom tomatoes: Thanks to her, her only child, Alexis, is an avid reader. “I was told, all the time, to read a book — and I loved...
I didn’t know it was possible to lose your sense of smell. But then I did. It was the summer of 2005; the days hot, muggy and long. I had recently graduated from college, but...
Today the block off 55th Street and 37th Avenue in Woodside, Queens, attracts little notice. There’s a warehouse, a halal poultry shop, a car detailer. But in 1897, a vacant home...
Partitions by Amit Majmudar (Metropolitan Books) Poet (and diagnostic nuclear radiologist) Majmudar’s debut novel is heart-wrenching. Set during the violent 1947 partition of...
My incarceration crept up on me over years, built not in a day, but in millions of moments, one upon the next, as if each were a single brick in some ominous structure of my own...
HBO may have pulled the plug on “In Treatment,” but Gabriel Byrne — its star shrink — is only too happy to analyze the Irish love affair with words. “I suppose it has something to...
He was the Donald Trump of the Gilded Age — flamboyant, ambitious, egregious. He glittered when he walked, his peacock wardrobe shrieking, his diamond rings sparkling, his...
The Language of the Sea by James MacManus (Thomas Dunne) Leo Kemp lives the idyllic life. He’s a well-liked professor of marine studies at an institute on Cape Cod. He has a...
On April 20, 1939, Germany’s Nazi Party celebrated Adolf Hitler’s 50th birthday with an orgy of gift-giving and a display of military firepower unparalleled in the history of the...
On film, she’ll be 16 forever, but Molly Ringwald is now a 43-year-old mother of three, with all the attendant joys and challenges — like trying to explain, to a 7-year-old, why...
CRIME & PUNISHMENT Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster, June 14) The actors portraying 007 are always changing, so why not the authors? Deaver (“The Bone...
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff Harper When Margaret Hastings found her best friend dead, all she could think about were her shoes. “I ought to have cried,” Hastings wrote...
Lady Blue Eyes My Life With Frank by Barbara Sinatra (Crown) “He considered writing a book himself, but decided against it,” Barbara Sinatra tells Required Reading of her husband...
When told that it’s hard to read his memoir, “An Improvised Life,” without hearing his voice — gruff, semi-sarcastic but wise — in every sentence, Alan Arkin responds in...
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