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I'm not a big fan of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but this week, he did something important that his predecessors had refused to do. On the eve of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, New York City released over 170,000 pages of documents about the toxic air quality levels after the Sept.11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.

The numbers are ...Read more

"True is it that we have seen better days." -- William Shakespeare

Pearl Harbor brought out the best in the American people. We responded by pulling together for a major mobilization when an act of war landed on our soil in 1941. That December day, which Franklin Roosevelt eloquently declared would "live in infamy," is within living memory.

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Growing up, I received a wealth of working-class values from my parents, including this nugget about egalitarianism: "Nobody is better than you," they said, "and you're no better than anybody else."

That's the ethical underpinning for "We're all in this together" -- it's what Thomas Jefferson enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and ...Read more

Smoke still rose from the ruins of the World Trade Center, and the smell of nearly 2,000 deaths lingered miles uptown. A reporter asked New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani whether he worried that the city's Muslim neighborhoods would be attacked in revenge for that Islamist-inspired atrocity. Giuliani responded that he would make sure that didn't ...Read more

For those who remember the way savagery shattered serenity on Sept. 11, 2001, the last 25 years haven't dimmed the memory of the evil that occurred that day. One remembers the photos of the missing, murdered plastered on Manhattan's buildings and street poles and The New York Times obituaries -- bunches each day -- of those pulverized in the ...Read more

Last August, President Donald Trump manufactured a phony "crime emergency" to surge National Guard troops and federal agents into our nation's capital. This deployment came on the heels of similar surges in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon. He even told military leaders that the National Guard was fighting "a war from within," and that ...Read more

It has been more than six months since President Donald Trump -- without the authorization of Congress -- declared war on Iran. It is turning into one of those forever wars that candidate Trump so vigorously denounced. Now he has enmeshed us in such a war, costing billions, lives and our credibility in the world. And he still can't get the ...Read more

If you think the Langtang Lirung glacier disaster on the Tibet-Nepal border was bad, wait for Lake Sarez.

There is no reason to downplay the Aug. 26 catastrophe, when a large section of glacier and underlying rock at 17,000 feet of elevation failed and plunged almost 4,000 feet into the valley below. The impact registered as a magnitude 5.2 ...Read more

Armelle Bondonga Bradshaw was nervous walking into her final green card interview, but her husband Terrance assured her that it was all going to be fine. They had done everything the U.S. government had asked of them: completed the required medical and financial assessments, gathered their paperwork and even received approval of their marriage...Read more

When I was in high school, a girl I was going out with said she was first attracted to me by the way my hair curled over my shirt collar in the back. She sat behind me in math class.

I spent the next five years of my life turning my back on girls so they could get a good look at the back of my neck.

It didn't work. They just thought I was ...Read more

Anna Wintour spent nearly four decades reigning over Vogue magazine. She was chair of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute and its glitzy gala. Wintour is an inspiration for the imperious fashion editor in "The Devil Wears Prada." With her trademark bob hair, sunglasses and snotty English accent, Wintour has been the style ...Read more

Tuesday was primary day in Massachusetts, where winning the Democratic primary makes you the prohibitive front-runner in November. Which is a long way of saying that Massachusetts will be returning three aging Baby Boomers to Congress. I couldn't be more pleased.

The lucky three are Senator Ed Markey, 80 and Representatives Richard Neal, 77 ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Sure, build a ballroom dwarfing the clean and classic design of the White House.

Go ahead, murder the history of Lafayette Square with prison bars keeping tourists away from our traditional place of dissent. Close the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since it will never be the same again, with your name spoiling ...Read more

Let's all gather 'round the campfire, Buckaroos and let Ol' Cactus Jim here tell you about some of today's hardy, hard-working cowboys. Yes, those manly men who live free-spirited, yippy-ti-yi-yo, cowboy lives out in the rustic ranch country of the Rocky Mountain West.

Oh, wait -- that was a century ago. The "cowboys" who are now humming "...Read more

Historians may settle on President Donald Trump's demolition of the United States Agency for International Development as the perfect exemplar of America's precipitous plunge: the nullification of the best and most idealistic of what we have to offer by those whose values are the worst and most cynical we've ever experienced. Founded by John ...Read more

It was a day of deep thinking and heroic typing, my brain so fried I could hardly call out for pizza. Then the news and social media feeds exploded with reports that Harry and Meghan plan to leave California and move back to England. What was that to me? I don't care that the royals moved away or believe in royal anything except perhaps Royal ...Read more

More than 50 years ago, the framers of the Montana Constitution made a commitment that Indigenous cultural identity would be taught in every classroom across the state. Montana law has since promised that every student would learn about the history, cultures and contributions of tribal nations for more than two decades. But in classrooms ...Read more