The passage of ObamaCare last night was the high-water mark of the Democratic ascendancy....
Read OnWith the passage of the health "reform" bill, Pres ident Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and...
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Last night, Democrats got the votes they needed to pass the Senate health-care bill -- put over...
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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, like many liberals, seems afflicted by Sixties Nostalgia...
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Annie Jacobson highlights a troubling question for the Obama administration: Why haven’t the year-long series of emails...What about school consolidation?
There’s been a lot of news lately about cuts to K-12 education in various states because the recession has hurt state...
Despite holding a commanding majority in both houses of Congress, and with the full resources of the federal government at their backs, President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to bargain and barter for every last vote yesterday in order to pass their health-care overhaul.
Mayor Mike may have just opened himself up to a world of hurt.
What does a dog do on his day off ? Better yet, how does a New York City borough president keep busy? After all, neither dogs nor beeps are overly burdened by responsibility.
Today’s the day that the House of Representatives votes (or doesn’t vote) on ObamaCare — a radical scheme that incorporates the most drastic changes in US health-care delivery in more than four decades.
Poor Sandra Bullock -- she seems so sweet and beautiful ("Blind Sided," March 18).
The Post's editorial, "DOE's Distractions," (March 17) is sadly off the mark.
We’re in the midst of what’s been described as one of thebiggest demographic trends to ever hit the United States: More of us are living alone. In 1960, just 13% of households in...
He’s given the world Kurt Wallander — the hard-drinking, highly caffeinated detective recently played by Kenneth Branagh on PBS. But Sweden’s Henning Mankell has more on his mind...
Backing Into Forward A Memoir by Jules Feiffer (Doubleday) Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer gives us an unvarnished New York view of the world of art and culture...
If you don’t believe in evolution, just take a look at Raquel Welch. She was once just a picture on a poster — OK, maybe not just any poster: It was an unforgettable image,...
When he was 15 years old, future composer John Cage gave a speech, for an oratory contest, about Pan-American relations, in which he said that America should have her business,...
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...
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