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Great Houses of New York: River House, the Best Address, Part II

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York


Michael Henry Adams

Another trip to the fabulous River House overlooking the East River.

Ford Chairman: Clunkers Program Was Great For Our Industry (VIDEO)

Posted 11.10.2009 | Business


Is Ford the lone bright spot in the American auto industry? Ford Executive Chairman William Ford, Jr. Spoke with CNBC today from a new plant in Mich...

God and Man and Mohammed at Yale

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics


Joan Z. Shore

This is worse than censorship: this is self-censorship. This is knowing what is right and appropriate and deliberately overriding it, and then trying to rationalize the decision.

The Life and Death of Ted Kennedy: Continuing to Learn as We Mourn

SaraKay Smullens | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics


SaraKay Smullens

Even those who win one moment can face horrific, brutal loss in the next. The rich and famous are no more spared than the rest of us.

Ted Kennedy: Master Sailor and Senator

Terry Gardner | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics


Terry Gardner

There may not be any single senator ready to take up Ted Kennedy's mantle. So why not pick it up together as a legislative body?

Ted Kennedy: A Reason To Rejoice

Mark Dorlester | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics


Mark Dorlester

Much is said today, as Senator Kennedy is memorialized, about his long and extraordinary service to our nation. But with all that, I rejoice today for a different reason.

One Big Question for the Madoff Gang

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

For 25 years, you've taken the life savings from the elderly, the charitable, your best friends and their families. Suddenly you don't have the moxie to make a clean getaway? Why didn't these guys run away?

FDR's New Deal, JFK's New Frontier, Barack Obama's New Foundation

Paul Abrams | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics


Paul Abrams

The benefit of the decay of the old is that it provides space not to rebuild the foundation so that it fits with the modern world.The "New Foundation" is the theme of the Obama presidency.

Gates and Crowley Share a White House Beer - President Obama Declares an End to Racism

Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics


Andy Ostroy

With the four men seated at a round table with their frosty mugs of beers, and with Biden and Obama with uprolled sleeves, the picture could not have looked more fake and insincere.

Happy Hour at The White House...Sort of

Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted 08.31.2009 | Comedy


Sybil Adelman Sage

As Vice President Joe Biden joined them, Lucia Whalen, who happened to be passing by the White House, called 911 to report "strange activity on the South Lawn."

Holder Helped Secure Lenient Plea Deal With Bush Lawyers

The Raw Story | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics


When the US Justice Department announced in March 2007 that Chiquita Brands had pleaded guilty to "one count of engaging in transactions with a specia...

New York Legislature Switch May Doom Pro-Tenant Rent Law Changes

NY Times | NICHOLAS CONFESSORE | Posted 07.18.2009 | New York


State Senator Pedro Espada, Jr. handed a significant victory to New York Republicans when he abandoned the Democratic caucus last Monday and threw the...

Why "Commencement"?

Paula Gordon | Posted 06.25.2009 | Living


Paula Gordon

I feel a special connection, an affinity even, with the Class of 2009. My husband and I are both "Class of '68." This class, like ours, will experience very directly the evolutionary reality: the only constant is change.

New Tunes On Monday: Elvis Costello, Marshall Crenshaw, eels, Alex Woodard, and Buckwheat Zydeco

Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.24.2009 | Entertainment

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Mike Ragogna

You've heard Elvis Costello sing country music before, but not like this. The lad who gave us Almost Blue is quite mature and worldly wise now.

Soloists Everywhere Making a Difference

Sarah Newman | Posted 06.11.2009 | Entertainment


Sarah Newman

Our commitment will make a difference in changing the landscape of our society so that all homeless people and those with mental illness are treated as our equals and nothing less.

We, Too, Are Abolitionists: Black History Month, Slavery and the Death Penalty

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics


Diann Rust-Tierney

We Americans should honor abolitionists of the past and present not only by remembering them during Black History Month, but by working to repeal capital punishment throughout the USA.

Change and the Dream: Teaching Our Children About Non-Violent Living

Terry Real | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living


Terry Real

It is in everyone's interest -- the victim, the bully and the bystander -- to create a safe environment in which respect for one another is not just a voluntary matter but a baseline norm that we insist upon.

Obama Does and Doesn't Fulfill King's Dream

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

A percentage of whites who said they'd vote for Obama also said that blacks were more crime prone than whites. Yet Obama was seen as a racial exception, the penchant for making these distinctions between blacks.

From Nightmares to Dreams Come True

Michael DeJong | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living


Michael DeJong

Long gone is the unique American social phenomenon that each new generation will "do better" than the last. Things are starting to feel more like "The Grapes of Wrath" than "The Great Gatsby."

The Obama "Betrayal" Narrative Takes Shape

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

The fear is that Obama, bending to pressure from the military-industrial complex, might "re-brand" the Iraq war.

VP-Elect Joe Biden Names Three to New White House Staff

Erin Medlicott | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics


Erin Medlicott

Senator Biden remarked, " Cathy Russell has a unique blend of policy and management experience, combined with an ardent commitment to ending injustices around the world."

Ford Scion Looks Beyond Bailout To Green Agenda

New York Times | BILL VLASIC | Posted 12.25.2008 | Green


DEARBORN, Mich. -- As the Detroit auto companies contend with their worst financial crisis in decades, the most famous American auto executive has sta...

Let it Be Jesse Jackson - Sr. -- For Senator

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics


Jamie Stiehm

The eloquent Jackson would be in seventh heaven because Senators talk all day long -- with no time limits on speeches -- and some actually might listen to him.

Kaboom. Oops, There Goes the Neighborhood! How to Rewrite Your Way Around Regulation You Don't Like

Jessica Catto | Posted 11.07.2008 | Entertainment


Jessica Catto

Emotion and impact are the hallmarks of a new documentary on... strip mining. "Crimes Against Nature," involves you visually and viscerally in the amputation of earth's monuments.

William Safire Sounds Kind Of Racist

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.01.2008 | Media


Joseph A. Palermo

According to William Safire, Obama's speech was a failure because it was "all too like the collectivist fantasy that opened and closed the Beijing Olympics."