WASHINGTON - Voracious reading 鈥� 鈥淚 am reminded of Andrew Gordon鈥檚 masterful book 鈥楾he Rules of the Game鈥� about the decline of the Royal Navy before the Battle of Jutland鈥� 鈥� fuels the fluent writings of Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.). Their distilled essence is: People who are ...
WASHINGTON - Academic intellectuals, who often are the last to understand things, seem unable to fathom this: They might be taken more seriously if they did not take themselves so seriously. Which is why it is in their interest to stop the spreading practice of having colleges and universities ...
WASHINGTON -- The Bronx, the only one of New York City鈥檚 five boroughs that is on the American mainland, once had a sociological as well as geographical distinction. In the 1930s it was called, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan noted, 鈥渢he city without a slum.鈥� It was 鈥渢he one place in the ...
WASHINGTON -- Two Junes ago, when the Supreme Court upheld, 6-3, a challenged provision of the Affordable Care Act, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, vented: 鈥淐ongress wrote key parts of the Act behind closed doors. ... Congress passed much of the Act using a complicated ...
WASHINGTON -- In 1859, when Manhattan still had many farms, near the Battery on the island鈥檚 southern tip, The Great American Tea Company was launched. It grew, and outgrew its name, becoming in 1870 The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, which in 1912 begat the first ...
OSSINING, N.Y. -- Sparkling in the sunlight that inspired 19th-century romantic painters of the Hudson River School, Sing Sing prison鈥檚 razor wire, through which inmates can see the flowing river, is almost pretty. Almost.Rain or shine, however, a fog of regret permeates any maximum-security ...